San Francisco

Friday after work (late) C and I drove down to SF to spend the night. C’s brother works for Earnest and Young, they have him working in their SF office for a few weeks. During this time they have provided him with a condo in the city, as downtown as you can get - before moving into an office building. He headed home for the weekend and gave us the condo for the night. It was great to get away. We took full advantage of the amazing gym and being close to the shopping. Saturday, after spending the day in the city, we visited Dad at the firehouse – always a good time. He was nice enough to make us dinner.
Noteworthy items – there was no rain. Predictions all week have been for rain on Saturday. I was thrilled to wake up to clear skies Saturday, by lunch the clouds had rolled in, but it was still beautiful. Today was a different story - raining and pouring. I was totally feeling Harry Nilsson in the car on the way to my parent’s “I’m going where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain…”.
Friday night reminded me, once again, I will never be able to live in a “big city” without difficulty. I am light a sleeper and hardly slept on Friday. Perhaps it was the 2 walls of windows overlooking the city lights-which never seemed to turn off and the constant sirens from ambulance, police and fire. By 3:45am I was at wits end. If I ever move to such an active area I will invest in the metal blackout screens they use in France to create a windowless effect and ear plugs. Dark and quite. 
Here are some photos taken this weekend. Night photos from the roof, day photos from the condo and others from the firehouse.

Hey Trippy!

Yes, that is how my coworker Ry began his email this morning. Trippy! Yesterday was an interesting day. I started off with high hopes – I mean when you randomly find five bucks in the pocket of the coat you have not worn in ages it has to be a good thing, right? Not so, as soon as I walked into the building yesterday I took a fall. Apparently there was some film on the tile which did not agree with my shoes. Granted it only covered about 2 square feet of surface but somehow I managed, over the course of the day, to slip 4 times walking over it. Fearing for my life, or at least my ankles I requested our facilities guys mop the floor. Of course they doubted my story, this meant I had to walk them over to the offending tile and demonstrate how slippery it was. Pretty hilarious.

Lucky Girl

I know most of you who read this have already seen these photos, but my sister is so lucky to get to hang out with this handsome fella everyday.

Mover

For as long as I can remember I have loved rearranging my furniture. I have lived here 2 1/2 months and have moved the furniture in the bedroom and living room 4 times. The arrangements just keep getting better and better.

Here is the living room in its current configuration.