Some exciting news: This week we signed a lease on a new apartment! It’s in the Mission and a stone’s throw from Dolores Park and the BART. Hurrah for easy commutes- Earl downtown to his office and for me to Paramedic School. And, and, and… (!!!!) ….. here is the best part:

IT HAS A PATIO!

whoooo :D

I’ve really, really, really missed the patio of our NYC apartment. Mostly just for chilling and drinking a coffee in the morning with the newspaper. That used to be such an integral part of my weekend routine. Even though our apartment right now is really gorgeous and really nice, having no outdoor space to pad over to in your pjs and laze around on while collecting sunbeams has been a true downer. I feel like a caged animal confined to the indoors. So even though it’s not as schmance, I’m extremely excited for this new place!

I am, however, not really looking forward to moving itself. It’s funny- Earl and I have helped about four of our friends move, but for some reason we just don’t feel like cashing in that favor right now. Maybe we’ll hire some dudes from craigslist to help us out. We are moving for July 1st (“officially”), however have a few weeks of overlap in the meantime to get started.

Today I went on craigslist and snagged a bunch of free boxes from Good Samaritans. People just give away their old boxes after a move, did you know that? Pretty awesome. We will most likely play it forward and do the same. Quite cool that we found that out- when we moved from NYC to San Francisco we shelled out about $400 at Home Depot for (on sale!) boxes, packing tape and packing paper. Just one afternoon of browsing on CL and I circumvented that expense entirely. The people I picked up free boxes from were couples who had just moved- one couple came from Boston out to SF and kind of reminded me of us two years ago. When we were all wided-eyed and fresh faced and “I’m *so* gonna love it here in San Francisco.” :P

Anyway, here are a coupla photos of the new pad:

kitchen:

bedroom:

living room:

Pretty basic looking, but it’s kinda unique- it’s actually two levels and it’s own free-standing “house” …. no other apartments touch it. The bedroom and garage are downstairs (and a bathroom) and the patio, kitchen, living room and another bathroom make up the 2nd level. And, while it’s not in the best or most desirable part of San Francisco, it is first and foremost an easy commute for both of us. Also, you could say it’s sort of an “up and coming” neighborhood with lots of shops and restaurants. So hopefully we will like it there. (*crosses fingers*) Here is to moving on up! Or… at least… here is to parking your butt outside on the patio whilst nursing a cuppa coffee ;)