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Dose of Delusion
Puerto Vallarta Christmas and Houston's New Year's Highlights
AJ and Jay share their holiday adventures, featuring a mix of chaos, impromptu hair appointments, and festive fiascos. AJ recounts his sun-soaked Mexican escapades. The duo indulges in tantalizing tastes and wild pool parties in Puerto Vallarta, highlighting inclusive events at Casa Cupula. AJ's New Year's celebration includes luxurious spa indulgences while Jay laid-back on New Year's Eve with his fearless puppy. The narrative captures the essence of a vibrant and unforgettable holiday season, offering inspiration for future getaways and celebrations.
Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to your dose of delusion. It is me, yours truly, your host, Jay, and I'm sitting right across from the sun. Kiss the sassy, the love with himself. Quintessential AJ, AJ, oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:First, of all Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1:Happy New Year. How are you Tell me everything?
Speaker 2:Merry Christmas and happy fucking New Year. I am, I'm fantastic, I am doing, I'm doing really good just starting off 2024. It it's already fucking Thursday and so ready, like the week has already been insane at work and so fucking delusional. But I don't want to fucking talk about work. Can we talk about where we've missed each other first?
Speaker 1:Well, of course, I don't know why, why you even brought up work. I know because work, work, work, that's all we do. We're professionals, professionals. Fuck that for the moment. Yeah, I have missed you a lot in the last couple of weeks because you have been out traveling being a jet setter. I know, I know I'm super, I'm super excited. But before we get into that, I, I didn't do. I didn't do that much. Ok, I took a break. Yeah, I took a very, very nice break, aj.
Speaker 2:Well, you were working and like out of town and I was exhausting, so you decided to stay local, right?
Speaker 1:Yes, I stayed local for my holidays, for my Christmas I ended up spending it with with a good friend over at their home. They hosted a, him and his partner hosted their family, and I went over there and I did family stuff. I mean, there was crotch goblins running around, there were kids, there were everything.
Speaker 2:You're telling me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. It was so much fun. I'm not sure we haven't spoken since before Christmas, right?
Speaker 2:No, so we, we last mad, we like recorded on a Thursday. Yeah, ok, and then I had an insane Thursday night and then flew out to Mexico.
Speaker 1:I just don't want to make sure I was repeating something which would probably happen a lot here.
Speaker 1:But, no, it was great there was. He had his parents who were there, his siblings were there, their their children were there, so his nieces and nephews there were kids running around. And it was really nice because I was able to, because I mean, even though they've been very accepting of me and my friendship with them, but I'm not the family so I was able to do a behind the scenes role. I was cleaning and picking up plates and organizing the games and the children and picking up the trash and stuff like that, just constantly going behind the scenes. I think at one point somebody asked if they hired me as a help.
Speaker 1:Stop Not joking, but it was so funny I actually even at one point I did something AJ. So my friend, our friend, has a 17 year old nephew.
Speaker 2:Okay, and his girlfriend? Why does it sound very okay?
Speaker 1:Nevermind continue. Yes, and his girlfriend, the nephew's girlfriend, was there.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And I'm like in just like help mode, you know, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom In and out of rooms cleaning up, yada, yada, yada. And at one point I'm like I haven't seen this 17 year old boy and his girlfriend. So I go up to our friend and I was like, hey, I haven't seen your 17 year old nephew or his girlfriend in like two hours. Oh no, and he goes, I'm not his dad. And I said you know what? Neither am I, neither am I. There might be a new baby next Christmas, but that's not my business?
Speaker 2:Oh no, that's not my business.
Speaker 1:But no, that was it. That's how I spent my Christmas. Spent it there.
Speaker 2:Cute.
Speaker 1:It was really, really lovely. And then I came home.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I slept for like two and a half days and didn't leave my couch and it was phenomenal.
Speaker 2:Did you have you caught up on like Housewives?
Speaker 1:Oh, I was hoping we're going to ask that, because no, I have. Oh good, ok, ok, can we have a?
Speaker 2:binge, sasha, because I'm completely behind. I keep on here. My friends are like Salt Lake.
Speaker 1:Oh well, I Salt.
Speaker 2:Lake and I'm like stop telling me about everything, because it was a finale.
Speaker 1:This is a finale. Yeah, it was just yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm like I want to talk about me and I haven't seen anything and no one's asking me about my trip and it's been well, I am getting there because, trust me, well I was here while I was here wearing my beautiful ugly Christmas water burger sweater, which was a big hit. It is so cute.
Speaker 1:I love it and I had a blast. All I could think about was AJ is soaking up the sun and part of a yard and I need to know all of the details, even the dirty ones, and don't leave anything out. Go.
Speaker 2:OK, so I OK, so I have an insane Thursday night because I was like I'm going to, I'm going out of town, I need to see Christmas people, I need to go out and hang out. I had things scheduled and packing to do because they took the day off Friday from work, because my flight was at some insane hour, at like five am on Saturday. Ok, so I had to be packed and ready. Well, of course, our friend that always twists my arm, to go out in town and is like stay out, go out, do all this and that.
Speaker 2:So I go out, have a wild night, I you know, see the sun come up, kind of a thing. And I'm like why am I doing this? I'm about to go out of town, I look haggard. I had a hair appointment that I had to go to at noon, got that taken care of and he was like where you headed? He always talks to me, my barber, and he's like oh yeah, Mexico, Cool, what are you going to do? And I'm like hopefully find a sugar daddy.
Speaker 1:But obviously I'm, here.
Speaker 2:So that didn't happen. And so then I I any who pack whatever Take a baby little nap by the end of the day, because I couldn't decide what I was going to take and I had to set my clock for 2 30 am.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:To shower, get ready. Everything was packed. My Uber was about 10 minutes early and was like don't worry, I'm not leaving until 3, 15 or whatever, because I didn't know it's right before Christmas, everyone's traveling. I didn't want to deal with any kind of crazy.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:The airport was already insane at 3 45 by the time I got there. It was in, say, our tiny little airport was wild, oh my God. So I flew from here to Houston, had a tiny little baby layover, but I arrived in Puerto Vallarta at like 10 45 am.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, yeah so I had a whole fucking day like to do stuff. So my friends were already getting checked into the Airbnb because they had. They had already been there a week and then got their next one, which is how I got invited for the extra room that they had and they, we, we get to the place. It was called the Aveda residences and it was fabulous. It was right in the heart of the central or zone of Romantica and it was phenomenal. They actually just it's a new build, so the view was amazing. Their rooftop pool with cabanas was beautiful. We were right when we walk out of the residences, which were like badge entry and super secure and elevator and security and all of that, like you're like in the mix of the city, like there's like it's, it's so walkable, like everything was hop skipping, a jump of a way I there's a Big gay club on a beach called Matamar. That's only about a 20 minute walk.
Speaker 1:Oh nice.
Speaker 2:So I mean it was amazing. So, so that's my start of getting there, right? So I get there. They have a shot of tequila waiting for me. It's a list. Not even noon.
Speaker 1:What a great way to start your day after exactly, and I'm like I haven't slept.
Speaker 2:but I'm like okay, so I shoot the tequila. And right when I shoot it, they're like oh sorry, it's warm, we've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2:and I'm like you get an ice it burning tequila so that was a start to my Christmas and it just kind of like just kept on getting better and better. I can't say anything, you know I I want to just keep on going and going and and, detail by detail, but like we'd have a four-hour show and I'm not gonna do that to you guys, so okay, how okay, so did you.
Speaker 1:Did you eat much when you were there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the food is amazing. So what? I went to like one of the same restaurants that was right on the beach called Lamar, and it was thank God he didn't say senior frogs, but go on.
Speaker 2:There one there? I hope not, so, it's Lamar, it's um Savicha, like all different types of Savicha, and it was every single time I went I had Like three different kinds of Savicha and I didn't even know that there could be that many different kinds. And it was just so amazing I'm so fresh, so good, so healthy. And the reason how and why we went, we were walking around me. My friends and I were getting lost in the little shopping areas and like fake Louis Vuitton stuff and like those types of like little markets that we were walking through. And when we we arrived to the, it's the boardwalk and I think it's called the, it's the Malacca one is what it's called.
Speaker 2:So we're walking down it and they're like, oh, we have a friend, because this is their second time there. We have a friend that works at this restaurant. I was like, oh, my god, I think I've heard of that restaurant, yeah. So we start walking towards it and the short little cute muscle Mexican comes up to them and he's like hi, oh, and start like Kissing them. And then he's like this is our friend. And they're like he's like hi and was like so sweet and gave me hug. And I was like, oh, strong arms and.
Speaker 2:Is this my present?
Speaker 1:you know, I know.
Speaker 2:But I later met his husband.
Speaker 1:Irrelevant.
Speaker 2:So so the he had that he was a server there at that restaurant and he was so Sweet to us and just like, like the water was like coming up to my feet, like I was, I was, we were sitting on the sand, so we were, our tables were on the beach.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2:No, it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So like umbrella is like the sand, I'm wearing shoes, I'm not barefoot, you know what I mean and the servers coming out to us. The ocean is, I'd say, maybe about 20 feet away.
Speaker 1:Oh, I must understand. I thought you had said like the like the water was like, like your feet were in water.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm you know for the, for the visual of it. It might as well.
Speaker 1:I just pictured us sitting in, like you know, eight inches of water and I'm like no.
Speaker 2:So like fish were around me. Yeah, no so, but it was. The food was so fresh and not only just eating there like across from our Residents, that we were seeing, and there was a 24-hour little Mexican restaurant. So, coming home at like four, six in the morning.
Speaker 1:Love a 24-hour restaurant.
Speaker 2:Oh, little little abuelita is in the back with like making her Make it me a gordita like because I've gained weight. Obviously I've been eating so much You'll see in the film when you watch but um so so. But the little authentic little Mexican restaurants were Fantastic and the fret I kept on to eat. I hate seafood but I love it when I'm on a coastal city Because it's fresh like I don't want to be eating seafood in an inland. I'm gonna negate that well certain seafoods.
Speaker 1:I have to stop.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree with you, so.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, actually I don't think I've ever been and I want to go, but I digress Seafood, so obviously nothing like fresh, like oysters, or you order those come fresh and like. That scares me, but I think that's frozen. That, you thought, is it's arguably sometimes fresher than like what you'd buy, like even on the coast. When the coast gets caught, then it goes to market, then it gets sorted, then it gets clean, then just the shops, the restaurants shops come and select it, buy it, take it back to their place and how, lord knows, a day or two later You're getting it. If it's caught Clean and then flash frozen and it stays frozen like it should, by the time you get it days or weeks later.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's still super fresh. But I do agree with you like it's just definitely when you're getting it, when you know there's been a fresh cut.
Speaker 2:It's. It's different. It was different on a coastal city especially since if you say you don't like seafood, but you loved all of that seafood, oh, yeah, it was fantastic, like like I'm telling you like I if I go like okay, so here locally in San Antonio, there is a Mexican restaurant, I'm sorry, mexican seafood restaurant. It's called. Oh Shucks, why do I do this?
Speaker 1:Del Taco yeah, it's right.
Speaker 2:No, it's kidding 281 and bitters, and it's a Mexican name.
Speaker 1:Yes, I Love that place.
Speaker 2:Oh, my god so.
Speaker 1:Oprah voice.
Speaker 2:I love that place. You get some tea, but you get some tea, so I always get the ceviche there. It's so fresh and delicious. So so I am. I am a ceviche person, but I had it like the pulpo, the, the actual tuna, like of all the different kinds of fish or whatever. It was just so fresh and fantastic and then so that's the food. Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I now I know Lindsay write this down where I'm taking AJ for dinner.
Speaker 2:Yes, we have to go.
Speaker 1:I Adore it Okay so Lindsay wants to come also. It'll be. It'll be a doD dinner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, like planning, yeah for sure, For setting for 2024, where we need to plan and, yes, all right, so that in the books we have to go, I love that place, yeah, and then it could be a write-off because we're. Is that how that works?
Speaker 1:and then someone pays, right, okay, david.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're writing it off.
Speaker 1:Okay, so all right, I so that was the food. I can't look a now. I want to know about the other thing you eat out there. Um, how are the boys?
Speaker 2:Do not make me scream like that. You.
Speaker 1:Delicious. Okay, so the the nightlife in PV is Amazing so I've only heard, I've never been and I I can't wait to hear all the details.
Speaker 2:So okay. So there's. There's a club called industry, there's a club called Okay. Well, let me just okay. So one of our first stops was a hotel pool party up in the hills called Casa Coppola, and Casa Coppola, coppola has, are you okay? I know I'm excuse me and see, drink over here I have, um, uh, so they have these parties right and I did post a little on my Instagram some of the photos and, um, their thing is Everybody is beautiful, but not everybody is beautiful, but every body is beautiful.
Speaker 2:Oh, we love that so it was very accepting and very like all shapes and sizes of men and um, all different types, like thick boys, muscular um um Harry daddies and and older bears and polar bears and panda bears and Little Twinkie, but like every otter, every single, including me, the silver fox was all inclusive with this animals in this, in this beauty, and it was thrown by um, this, um, this hostess with the most is la lo, who's very well known in the city, apparently, and he had these dancers and it was like, um, all obviously holiday, christmas theme.
Speaker 2:So sanna was there and sanna was in his little red Um uniform but with like a black beard it was a really hot bear guy with the harness under it was so.
Speaker 2:And he was like you want the present and I was like I should do. What is it? And then he Gives me a little chocolate he's like your chocolate and he gives me chocolate. But it was like a little golden wrapped bunny and I said this is Easter, non Christmas. He's like I know and I was like it's okay, give me hug and I'll feel better.
Speaker 1:And he did like punish me.
Speaker 2:I know, no, I should exactly Santa. You're being naughty.
Speaker 1:Bad Santa.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but it was. That was so cute. So that was like my first gig, because it was like a day poll party, right, and so that was amazing. There was really good looking people there and everyone's visiting from all over there was. I met some guys from Houston that were there in New Orleans and Canada like all over okay.
Speaker 2:So, it was amazing. So that was like first stop and then later on in the evening we had gone to that club industry and then there were several other on the strip. So and I can't I'm terrible with the names and I should have looked them up prior to meeting.
Speaker 1:So I could tell you how are you gonna get AJ's travel tips if you don't remember the names.
Speaker 2:Just you know, follow your nose and follow where everything is. I do remember that there was one club that I do recall it was called Club Spartacus and that was a super fun time. And so if you know, you know type of thing, and maybe don't look it up if you're not, interested Mom and dad don't Google that Please don't, but it was. That was really, really fun. I went a couple times there and that was a really fun experience with them.
Speaker 1:Oh my God okay, I am Okay. So I'm envious in a good way, like I'm jealous but happy for you, but also like I need to plan a trip out there Cause I know it's like a very easy location to get to, it's not very expensive to travel to, flights are kind of regular and out of there.
Speaker 2:So my friends actually went up to Austin and flew out of there and saved like, shaved off like a few hundred dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would do the same thing.
Speaker 2:However, the drive back was not gonna be worth the nonsense, because all of the flights don't leave until like five-ish, so you're not getting back home until 10-ish and then having to drive an hour plus. I know right.
Speaker 1:Well, I know I definitely wanna go. I wanna experience all of that. You know it seems like a lot of fun. I have had many of friends go there and I wanna experience all the food and the club and the boys and Spartacus and everything as well. But let me ask you this how did it feel? Aj, I know we talked about this last time. I think this was your first tropical Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how was that? Oh my God, okay. So I had an amazing still Christmas feeling because of that. They're my friends who had that friend that I met at Lamar. Him and his partner welcomed us to their home. His partner's a chef and there was turkey stuffing, there was mashed potatoes, there was a very. So this couple they actually he's traveled the world as a chef and has worked in Dubai for a Swiss royal family, or like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like he's a chef, okay. And so his godmother, who lives with them, also is this older white lady from Southern California, and before I was even coming, or before they even knew that my friends were gonna be there, he had asked her what do you want for Christmas? And she's like I want a traditional American Christmas. And so I still got that.
Speaker 1:I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2:And since I had missed Thanksgiving, why am I crying? Since I had missed Thanksgiving, it was really nice to have that kind of food and it was so good. So, in spite of me sipping margaritas and tequila on the beach, with the beautiful blue ocean in front of me, with and that was at a beach club called the Ritmo. So look that one up. That one was really really nice, with little huts that we were under from Brilas. It's right next to that famous gay beach club called Matamar, so I was listening to all of the circuit music that was coming from over there.
Speaker 2:And while they're trying to relax around me, I'm, like you know, with my hands in the air.
Speaker 1:I feel like a disco Christmas.
Speaker 2:So you know the mix of that with being able, to Christmas Eve, to give hugs and kisses at midnight and say Feliz Navidad to my new friends was so magical and amazing of an experience that I got to have.
Speaker 1:You know I love that for you and you obviously deserve nothing less. But I'm just super excited that you got to do that and you're just really pushing me to hurry. But make a trip out there. I really, really want to. I have to. I mean, my Christmas here was a bit more traditional.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which I still obviously had a great time. But wow, aj, that seems like exactly everything you're wanting it to be.
Speaker 2:So I was there from the 22nd through the 29th. And that was barely the 24th through the 25th, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, oh, my God.
Speaker 2:There's still so much more. That is just a blur. That was just again me hanging out at the beach, me going on a whale watch tour to see a mother humpback whale and her calf swim right under our boat and experience that amazing energy, because that's the season that they bring their babies to that Bay area of the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1:Couldn't be me.
Speaker 2:It was so beautiful and she was like, if I wanted to, I could have like just stepped over the boat that we were on and stepped on her and been fine and then stepped right back. She was that close and I'm not even exaggerating or being dramatic. It was such a beautiful experience to see that.
Speaker 1:There's a phrase I wanna say right now, and you were not the right skin color for this phrase, but y'all can connect the dots. I couldn't be me, so someone who loves cruises. I also hate open water, and I think because the cruise vessels are so large and they're so stabilized and smooth and unless you're actually looking over at the water, you could easily forget your on water.
Speaker 1:You would never find me on a smaller boat with whales under me. It could not be me. I would appreciate the stories and I would love the photos, but I will be preparing some drinks back at our villa waiting for you to return.
Speaker 2:So, and just real quick. I mean, there were so many different kinds of boats that you could have chosen and we went through something called Jets boat tours and he has everything from like a ring eating to like a yacht, and the amount of money that you spend is the amount of money or the type of boat that you're gonna be getting. So a queen, in between, I'm gonna say a baby yacht was definitely my cup of tea.
Speaker 2:And it was a beautiful experience and private chef people they're preparing our little snacks and alcohol drinks was really really nice with like some power.
Speaker 1:They're plumping you up to make you a better meal for the whale.
Speaker 2:That's a whale, all of. First of all, it's they weren't killer whales. These are beautiful, majestic singing whales right under us. It was just a beautiful experience to realize how small and insignificant we are.
Speaker 1:No, I only joke. I'm sure I mean joking about you. I would never do it, but I know it's beautiful. I can only imagine I've seen Nat Geo and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Actually, you know what I just remembered. There was a woman kayaking in the open ocean and all of a sudden the fishes little baby fishes started like swimming and jumping out of the water around her, and I know what that means. So some kind of whale was like opening its mouth and swimming upwards to get all of those little fish and it looked like she got eaten by the whale, but it just kind of like tipped her over to the other side of where the camera was filming. Have you seen that video? I'm gonna find it and send it to you.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious well, it's not hilarious but I wanna see your face while watching it, because that will be hilarious.
Speaker 1:You didn't witness this, for a second no. Aj, I would have died. No, my heart would have stopped or worse would have been, like you know blow the gun boom, boom, boom, click, reload, boom, boom, Like I would have done Off the pot.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna show you this video because my little devil horns come out as you know very well that they do and I laugh hysterically at the video, but I will never admit it.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I sent AJ guys, listen up, I sent AJ this meme, that was so him and we decided this needs to be his new tagline, because one a little I guess I wanna okay, don't quote me in fact, quote our friend. Joseph Joseph says that your housewife's tagline is actually already used by a housewife.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I really have one.
Speaker 1:I already played it. That one all right, cool, but the new one should be the meme that I sent you that says I'm no cook, but I can sure stir a pot. That's your tagline. Oh why, what are you? Ha, ha, ha ha. No Playing innocent over here, oh my God, okay.
Speaker 2:So okay, so that was just like, like there's just so many different things to do, Like it's not just like party, party, party. Like you could. You could just like do so many different things.
Speaker 1:Could you get any like facials, mani petties? I tried to say that with a straight face. How dare you. Oh how the tables turn Honestly did not mean that to come out derogatory until halfway through the word. Then I was like, oh shit, did you get any spa treatments, regular spa treatments? I heard you.
Speaker 2:No, Spartacus is a spa, imagine. No, just kidding, Just kidding Okay so you did that to yourself. I know I did just for fun funsies, so okay, so I did have, there was beautiful spas all around. But you know me and I'm not going to tell a lie and I know exactly what you're trying to get out of me right now.
Speaker 1:Well, no, no, no, no, no, that was a legit question. Did you do any self pampering? You're telling on yourself, or no, honey?
Speaker 2:So, on that note, I ex-nate the spas because I was spying on the beach.
Speaker 1:So next question oh my, that was the last 45 seconds were so rocky, no. I only asked because I think I know one time I conned oh yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:I got a mani pedi Immediately upon getting there. I think it was like my second, or it was before Christmas. I was like I'm not going to be with these talons or these claws, like because I've become like catwoman or something. So so I did go see this lady who, you know, it was only like for many petty including tip, like $30.
Speaker 1:I know I love it.
Speaker 2:I felt so rich over there.
Speaker 1:It's the same in the Caribbean. I love going to the Caribbean and getting them done and as long as I lead little tourist area, which they say don't do that but I will do, it's like super inexpensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah no, I only asked because at one time I was on a cruise and I conned them, knowing down well, that the spa charges a shit ton of money for that stuff. But I walked in, booked my appointment and got my treatment and then it was time to leave. I was like it's all inclusive, what are you talking about? And I put up such a respectful fight that they gave it to me knowing down, well, that wasn't part of it, but I still got it. You're sneaking a little bit sometimes. I love it.
Speaker 2:So after my whale watching and everything it all, honestly it was just like it was. So like it's a very high tourist time, so there was a lot of things going on, a lot of people to look at, a lot of people watching, a lot of all of that. So it was. It was really really nice, and so I would. I see the videos of how New Year's was at the at the same bars that I was at was disgustingly packed and I I liked being there for Christmas because it's still busy enough, because that is still high time. People want to get away from the cold. So you're getting all these like beautiful Canadian men to like go and visit. And it was. It was just amazing. So the rest of my trip just really was beach and little like knick knack, shopping and you know, going to these restaurants and hanging out with my friends and then just going out at night, like it was. It was a beautiful, amazing experience and I did get Botox when I was there because I know that's what you were wanting to know.
Speaker 2:So if you look, I am raising my eyebrows right now and there's no movement because the last time I was doing too many faces and you could tell. But I am refreshed, I'm nice and tan and I have Botox. So you can tell me, or you can tell when I'm giving you a look.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I am totally taken aback and taken away by this whole part of the trip. Definitely going to try to book that maybe by the end of the summer Way too much going on in the middle of summer but what I mean this is this whole pod is about AJ we got to catch up, because listen this wasn't his only trip.
Speaker 1:This wasn't his only trip. Our little friends, a jet setter. He was literally back in town for all of like 28 hours before he was gone Again. So he came back from his Christmas trip on the 29th and then the very next day.
Speaker 2:The very next day it's Thursday and my luggage is still like my apartment's, in a disarray, like I still have like this weekend. No one invite me to do anything because I cannot say no, I will come out, I will go to you, I will stay out with you, I will have fun.
Speaker 1:You don't have to worry about me, because I will not be inviting you anywhere. I'm not going anywhere this week, but where Tell me about your New Year's?
Speaker 2:Eve. I guarantee it was better than mine. Guarantee it was. What did you do? How was your New Year? Yeah, what did you do?
Speaker 1:You know, I didn't do anything. I thought I had plans. I thought I had a plan no fireworks.
Speaker 2:San Antonio is like one of the best fireworks I know. I legit thought.
Speaker 1:I had a plan.
Speaker 2:My whole plan was, you know if I don't go out, I might just go up to the rooftop of my building. Look at the fireworks. Everyone's up there. There's so many parties in this apartment building going on.
Speaker 1:But I was, I thought, for sure, I had plans, and then I guess they kind of fell through last minute. I'm still not sure why, but I just kind of stayed home.
Speaker 2:I have so many questions, I know I just stayed home and I fell asleep on my couch.
Speaker 1:And here's the funny thing is, I was like you know, this is my first time my puppy is going to experience these fireworks. Oh yeah, and the fireworks startled me awake at midnight. And I look over at my dog and he is dead asleep. So then, me being evil, I'm like I want to see if he's going to be scared, so I wake him up and he wakes up and he goes to the window, looks at the window for a second or two, goes right back to bed.
Speaker 1:They didn't face him at all. I know Good for you, I know I don't have to worry about him.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. I have some friends that they're like oh my God, they have to like leave the party the New Year's party that we're at to go to check on their fur baby and they're like shivering in the shower like tub, because that's their safe spot and that's because they're not even near downtown. Nope.
Speaker 1:It sound like there was a World War three going on right outside of my apartment and my dog could not have been. You know I fucked up the phrase there, but he couldn't have carried any less. He was just dead asleep. When I woke him up he heard him right back to sleep. I was like, well, good for you, and now I don't have to worry about you in the future Fitzgerald is precious.
Speaker 1:He really is. But no, I didn't do anything. I went back to sleep, I stayed in. So I guess, ultimately, in the long run, it was nice. I wasn't tired, I wasn't exhausted, I went into the New Year feeling very refreshed, amazing. But you, on the other hand, okay.
Speaker 2:So I get in very, very late and I'm getting attacked by my friends to go meet them out and I'm like I'm not. I'm exhausted. I was in Mexico for a week parting it up and you want me to come to San Antonio after experiencing that and go meet you out? Absolutely not, no, no, not going to do it. So I went to bed and then because immediately I had to meet up with some friends in Houston, because our guests were in the same room and his husband, they were in New York for a gig and were flying into Houston from New York. It was like an afters gig up there at this, really cool. The video looked amazing. Did you know? I actually I don't think I told you I looked at the video. I was like I don't know. I was like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know. I actually I don't think I told you I looked at flights. I was like I kind of want to go. I don't have much going on. I looked up flights. The flights were not that expensive but the hotels were. So the two people that I know decently well enough to say hey, can I crash with you? We're right there. They were traveling elsewhere. You're talking about New York or Houston?
Speaker 2:New York, new York.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw them advertised for the afters. I was like you know what? That's kind of cool. The flights were literally like 400 bucks round trip. I was like I'm going to do it. And I looked at hotels. They were like 500 bucks a night, yeah no. And I was like absolutely not. I know a few people up there, but only a couple that I felt comfortable asking can.
Speaker 2:I crash with you Right.
Speaker 1:Both of those friends were not in New York.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I could have. Well, you could have still had access to their apartment for the night.
Speaker 1:Whose apartment. Well, whoever your friends oh, I mean, I don't know them that well oh, they're like coworkers that have kind of become friends, not like you, if you like, if I was out of town, you want to send my place up like here's a key Right, get in, do your thing, yeah yeah. So I did not go in, but I considered it, I really considered it. So they.
Speaker 2:the videos looked amazing and it's a shame I didn't. I wasn't. I wasn't there, but I was in PV Anyhow.
Speaker 2:So, um, so, so anyhoo. So I, um, I, I, I drive to Houston um to to meet them and they flew there. They he really had a gig to get to, a pre New Year's gig, so that was fun. So I got there Saturday evening, rested. They all got into town, they were resting and they were like, oh well, we're gonna, we're gonna sleep and rest. The one of the first event started from 10 to like 2am and then Rudy's DJ gig in Houston started from like 2.30 to like 4am. So I was like, okay, so while they're resting, I'm like, well, I'm, I'm rested.
Speaker 1:So at midnight.
Speaker 2:I go to that event and it's at this like sky bar or something. I think it was called like rise or something, and the DJ was Alex Lowe and he's this suit I'm gonna, I'm gonna show you on Instagram. He's so handsome. He's this little cute like Latine. I don't know, I don't know what he is, but he's this beautiful man with juicy arms and played really, really good music and so like dancing, and I know a couple of Houston people through, like Rudy and like that kind of circle of my friends. So so I was kind of like mingling, but wasn't with my crew, so I was still off to the side Right, dancing my own little, enjoying the music, you know. So then two rolls around and I'm like are you guys up? Are you all headed to that other venue? And they were like, oh yeah, like we're, we're gonna have their suit. And so I was like, perfect, I'm dipping out, let me go meet you. So I catch an Uber with Uber and Lyft were terrible in Houston this weekend, but obviously it's New Year's weekend.
Speaker 1:So, understandably.
Speaker 2:So I go and I meet them in. Bauhaus was the name of that underground club that he always usually plays out when he's in town, and that was super, super fun and it was Rudy's music always gets me going, so that was a really, really fun time. He started at two 30s. So I'm there from two 30 to like four and they were like it was still yen nisimo, like it was so packed that the bar managers and the promoter were like keep it going. So we didn't stop until like six AM.
Speaker 1:Oh, houston is wide, I'm so glad Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, and, mind you, this is before New Year's.
Speaker 1:Eve. Yeah, this is the 30th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so. So then, all the Houston people love Rudy and I'm like, I'm with the DJ so like so they're like I let's go to the afters and afters, and I'm like this is the afters. What do you mean? It's six AM, what do you mean? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's just wild. I know that.
Speaker 1:The pregame and then, and then you go to the partying, and then you go to the after, and then you go have maybe a quick bite and then you go to like a day party, like it doesn't stop, it doesn't stop, it does not stop.
Speaker 2:I cannot look. I'm refreshing orange Thanks to Botox, but I cannot, this, cannot look in Houston. That I cannot. This, this will. I will not look. I will look haggard if I were to ever move to Houston so impossible and I can do it.
Speaker 2:But so so there. So Rudy and Jesse are like okay, maybe, maybe for a little bit, maybe for a little bit, and they're exhausted and done. But they, they, you know, the Houston people love them and they love their Houston friends. So I, they're like okay, okay. And so when we're ordering the Uber, rudy's like I kind of don't want to go, and Jesse's like but we just said yes, we have to go, and I said absolutely not Tomorrow's New Year's Eve, we're going to see the same people again, we're going to after. Then we're not doing it tonight, we still have tomorrow. So then we they're like okay, okay, okay, I was like, blame me, text them and say our friend said no, oh, so I hope they didn't blame me but if they did whatever, I don't care, I'll take it.
Speaker 2:So we rest up and then we go, we sleep, whatever, whatever. And then we go to this I forgot the name of it's like a popular brunch spot in Houston, and then of course it's like JR's and and then meet at JR's for like some Sunday Funday drinking. So so start there. And then we have a cute little spot there next to the DJ who has come into town and played before and, of course, knows Rudy, so hung out there, hello, hello and some cute drinks. And then it's like okay, let's go back to the Airbnb, let's rest up, because tonight's going to be a night. And I'm like, and I cannot, like, I like you know what I mean like, like, if I could do it, so can you?
Speaker 2:and I was yelling at them because they're like oh my god Listen, I just got back from a trip from from Mexico nonstop drove to fucking Houston for them and it's like we're going to make it a very fucking cute night. So so we rest up for a little bit, I get refreshed, I put a little moisturizer on because I was not going to look like a wrap, so and then get ready and, of course, my New Year's outfit is to die, for I saw the photo. So remember how I said for leather and lace.
Speaker 2:I was going to. I was very upset because it wasn't photographed and I had several of that similar style of outfit. Well, I kind of redid it, but with different, a different top color design, with, instead of my burgundy fur, I used my navy blue fur love and did my hair and super cute boots and had a photo shoot. It was and dance all fucking night and all fucking morning and made it home before the sun came up. Think, goodness.
Speaker 2:Oh, it wasn't a decent hour just to say, because we had that event and then took an hour to get a fucking Uber.
Speaker 1:Oh God leaving.
Speaker 2:I think that bar was called let's Kiki, which is super cute. It's an interesting in a shopping bar at an any. It's where the hamburger Mary's was, I believe.
Speaker 1:But love a hamburger Mary's.
Speaker 2:Right, but it was. It used to be a hamburger Mary's but now became a different club or whatever. And that DJ was from Brazil and I forget his name, but he actually played a track that DJ, rudy and Mark Oz had created. No way I flipped, like me and Rudy just looked at each other and he's like, oh my God, that's conga.
Speaker 1:And I was like you have to get me that track.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, it's amazing. I'm going to send it to you. Yes, it was so good we that empowered us to dance even more.
Speaker 1:We rejuvenated you.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. So that was, kiki was cute. And then after that the weather was. There was a torrential downpour apparently, and but by the time like I went outside and noticed it was just kind of wet so Okay good. But that had made several accidents on the highway. It made several Ubers and lives impossible to get.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then went to this super exclusive warehouse underground after party, where, low and behold, my friend who's from here, sandro Mons, who's also a DJ, was DJing, and so he was like what are you doing here? And I was like baby.
Speaker 1:I'm with the DJ.
Speaker 2:I was like with this DJ too and it was just super, super fun dancing all night and this other DJ so it was two DJs at this like warehouse underground thing and geo is, I think, dj Giovanni or something like that. His music just makes you like go and go and go and go and, like my friend Jesse went up to him and like was like and flicked him off like that and the DJ just started laughing because he's like no more, stop it, we're done and we couldn't because he would like bring it down.
Speaker 2:and then I'll send you like and like, go crazy and like, well and like, it just made us keep on going and going and dancing.
Speaker 2:It was so fucking insane. So, after like closing out 2023 with PV and just having an amazing holiday, and then experiencing and welcoming 2024 with such a fucking bang just empowered me to Okay, I did I close out 2023 in a such a great way, how is 2024 going to be? And it just made me think what do I want for 2024.? What am I going to do for 2024? And 2023 brought a lot of amazing things into my life. My new job at my property that I started I actually had my anniversary. Yesterday was January 3 was my first day with that company at that job. That's a congratulations.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much and that was a love hate relationship with that property like it I. It went down and I brought it back up and it was such a roller coaster feelings that it's, it's, it's. We're sitting at such an amazing place talking about work again, of course, because that's what I do is. We're sitting at such a good, amazing place right now that I'm like, okay, I'm starting 2024, amazing, I need to keep this up, I want to continue this. So I have resolved to. You know, I've always been a fuck resolutions saying yes.
Speaker 2:And I'm like I do that and my years are kind of shitty. You know what I mean? Not not shitty bad, not shitty good, not shit.
Speaker 2:They're just kind of like mundane in a way and and I feel like I'm on this amazing journey and path and, you know, with dose of delusion coming into my life towards the end of 2023. Why am I crying? I have has just opened up so many things and and broad our friendship so much closer and and it's just like opening up so much for 2024 that I'm just kind of like where do I want this to go? And I challenge everyone listening, and you also where are you going with 2024.? Where are you going to do and where is? Where is Jay? Where are you? What are you doing for 2024.?
Speaker 1:You know, I thought that was your sign off, so I know, I know, I know I was like I'm going to.
Speaker 2:I was like here goes.
Speaker 1:I was like here goes another one of AJ's just sign off out of out of nowhere.
Speaker 2:No, I've talked too much. I'm out of, my throat is cracking.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, because, honestly, yeah this has been a lot, but you had two massive great experiences. I think the majority of our listeners know us personally, so I'm hoping that they're going to really enjoy hearing all of those details, which is why I just let you keep going. No, it was awesome. I really loved hearing all of that. But you bring in a back down to the end of the years and the new year that we're in now. You know I don't typically like to do a resolution. Last year, I said I was new resolution and my friends made fun of me and I get why. But I was like you know what, for 2023, I'm going to be like less forgiving. I'm going to be less accepting. I'm going to be less of a yes man. I'm going to be. You know, I'm going to start saying no more. I'm going to start taking time for me. And they were like so you just need more of a dick, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, that's the, that's the page out of my book.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a, you know that's a gross, you know over simplification, but ultimately I just really wanted to be a little bit more selfish and I didn't quite get to it fully in some aspects of my life I did, and I think this year I don't really want to do a resolution I mean you can call it that but I just kind of want to again just focus on on me, and that doesn't mean I'm cutting people out of my life by any means, because I'm a bit of everything around me. Yeah, and if I'm focusing on me and you are close to me and you are a part of me, that means I'm focusing on you too. You know what I mean. That's amazing.
Speaker 1:But ultimately I'm going to only give my energy to things that matter, not things that make me happy, because there are a lot of things in my life and in your life and in your life and everybody's life out there that may not make you happy, but they matter. You know this one speaker that I love talks about. You know, if you have a loved one who's terminally ill and they're in a hospital, you know you go and spend time with them. That doesn't make you happy, but you do it because it matters. So I am only giving my energy to things that matter.
Speaker 1:I love them, yeah, and so that's what I'm doing this year, and it's not. I'm not adding anything or cutting anything out, I just I'm going to focus on things that matter to me.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful, that really is. And you know, I think that, with, with saying that I think that I want to manifest more. I want to because I kind of did that throughout 2023 and it ended up kind of coming true, you know, and it did work. And there are some things in 2024 that I know are going to happen, that have already started snowballing, and I'm just so excited I really, really am. I think that 2024 is going to be fantastic and I think that, even past that and going into 25 and 26 or whatever you know, you never know where or what's going to happen. And I'm just, I'm living my life and I'm living my life to the fullest that I possibly can, which is why it sounds sometimes a little crazy or insane when I talk about my weekends or my stuff that I do, but it's because I kind of don't give a fuck. Good, I don't give a fuck. I'm here to make myself happy. I was unhappy for a very long time and I'm finally not. And if that doesn't, if you aren't happy with that, fuck off.
Speaker 1:Yes, Love love that Absolutely AJ.
Speaker 2:Jay.
Speaker 1:I know I am so happy to be looking at you again. Thank you, producer Lindsey. We have a couple of things going on, oh oh, oh, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So I have a surprise. I know I said I wanted to start our 2024 pod with a few new little surprises. I have a our first interview guest lined up. My friend Mason, that I have proclaimed as our astrology expert, will be joining us next week and, kind of like, he gave me a little dose of reality or delusion, whatever you want to call it, and you know my chart. He took a gander at it and said a few things and I said, oh my God, shut up no more. I'm going to invite him next week. I hope you don't mind and he's gonna.
Speaker 1:No, I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait.
Speaker 2:Good, he's going to give us a little schooling on it. I want to know more about what planet means this, and what house is that and what's this and what's that. And you know the. Everyone knows what their sun sign is. But there's so much more. Oh yeah, and you know there's a lot of apps out there. So, listener, if you don't have costar, maybe get costar. If you know of a better one, let us know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, please note, do that. And then, when we have our astrology expert, I'm sure he'll teach us how to actually decipher and interpret everything.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're also me and producer Lindsey. We're going to go see Wicked tomorrow. I know, okay. No, if you know, don't, don't put your gaze at me. No, I was invited and well, that's fine.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to look at her, but I'm making a face. I'm making a face, but the Botox is helping, just so you know. But I'm very obsessed.
Speaker 1:So next week we'll have some Wicked reviews. No pun intended Some Wicked reviews. We'll also have our astrology expert, so I'm super excited. Listener, thank you so much for hanging out with us, hearing all about AJ's trips. We have a lot more coming for you this year. We have been loving it so far and we want to give you as much as we can.
Speaker 2:With that said, Thanks for listening, bye, bye bye, now, take care, see you next week.
