So I know it's been almost a month, but so much has happened in the interim! I not only found a new apartment in Diamond Heights (far too expensive and far out of the way) but it's very nice and NOT managed by a crazy landlady! yay! I also moved in last weekend (worst day of my LIFE) and have been incredibly busy with work at the Goog. Insanity.
Oh, and yesterday was my birthday (gosh, am I really 22?!) and I was in Vegas with Jack! First time I'd seen him since the middle of August. RIDICULOUS (-ly terrible!) It was absolutely amazing. We stayed at our place at the Signature and guess what? On my birthday, like at 4:30pm while Jack and I are gambling at NYNY, I get a call from AMY GALLAGHER saying she's in Las Vegas too, right next door at the Monte Carlo!!!! OMG! She was randomly there on a last-minute trip w/ friends from Phoenix. It was the best birthday surprise ever to see her. She rushed right over in true Amy-style and we got dinner/drinks at Nine Fine Irishmen and then she later came over to see the Signature and get a late snack before she went to Zumanity. Awesomeness.
Jack and I saw Ka at the MGM on Sat night, my parents' gift to us for our Birthdays (his was on 9/25, mine was 9/28) and the night before Jack surprised me w/ tickets to see Fab Four Live - a Beatles' Review at Planet Hollywood. It was so sweet! I loveddddd the Beatles' music! All in all, an extremely bittersweet weekend because it was absolutely amazing to see Jack again, but it was so short and we had to part again so quickly and for such another long period of time. It literally breaks my heart, and is much harder than I thought it would be.
But ya...so I flew into work this morning and had the most intense day ever trying to catch up. Geez louise! I have to get my life together. Oh, and I left my fave pair of high heels in the damn hotel room. Great - they'll have to charge me an arm and a leg to fedex it back. I'm going to try to go get my security deposit back tomorrow also. Wish me luck, everyone...! We'll see if crazy linda goes for it. If not, we'll have to take drastic measures. Seriously.
That was SUPER abridged, but I think I got the main points in and sorry my phone was off most of the weekend because I left my charger at work and had to keep it off! Please call/email if you wanna catch up one-on-one. I miss you all like crazy.
Bacci
Monday, September 29, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Whoa...Crazy Weekend
I literally have no idea where to start - this weekend was INSANITY. Anna, my friend from Berlin who Corbs and I met when we were on a Pubcrawl, came into town last Thursday and spent the weekend with us. It was so much fun! We saw a lot of the San Francisco sights, which was good for me because I haven't seen anything! We went shopping (Anna got to go to an American Supermarket and get Nike Air Max's!), to Dolores Mission Park (absolutely beautiful), to the Haight-Ashbury district, to Fisherman's Wharf, to the Golden Gate Bridge (it's a LONG walk across that thing), to the "Full House" house (which, btw, they have painted b/c too many people were taking pictures of it at night), we ran up Twin Peaks (I have GOT to get back in shape) and much much more. It was a full 3-Day weekend!
Oh, and the best part - CL (crazy landlady) called the cops, as predicted, on us last Friday night. We were having a small get together of friends, mostly new coworkers, and she woke up in the middle of the night b/c she does that. She noticed that the gate was open - someone had left it open when they left - and then she FLIPPED OUT, took the elevator up to our apt and just WALKED IN, started screaming at the few people that were left, and then went downstairs and called the police. Literally, she didn't stop screaming for like an hour and a half. We sufficiently scared the people that were there, and they obviously left. The police were clearly used to dealing with Linda, as she calls them regularly on the people below us for no reason. Basically, we tried to make nice with Linda the next morning, and things seemed to be going well until last night when we settled rent matters with her. She is insisting that we owe her more money for the flooring that was put in upstairs, and when we paid her the agreed-upon amount, she starting screaming again, called her son, tried to call the police (wtf) and general ballyhoo ensued. I literally almost lost it. After we left to go to dinner, I told Sarah that I could NOT live there for a whole year. After discussing things with her and Jack, we came up with a strategy. We got up super early this morning, and agreed to give her the the full amount that she wanted for the floors and then terminated our rental agreement. She almost didn't sign it, but thank goodness she did! Phew - we're outta there by the end of the month. I literally feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. I felt so suffocated there; I had a terrible gut instict about it. Even though it is a huge, nice, amazing apartment, NOTHING is worth having an insane person living below. Nothing. It was an expensive mistake to make, but I'm chalking it up to a learning experience.
So you people who haven't visited yet (all of you) I guess you'll see my new apt when you come! What a busy and eventful weekend. Fun, stressful, and busy all at once. Work, here I come!
ciao ciao
Oh, and the best part - CL (crazy landlady) called the cops, as predicted, on us last Friday night. We were having a small get together of friends, mostly new coworkers, and she woke up in the middle of the night b/c she does that. She noticed that the gate was open - someone had left it open when they left - and then she FLIPPED OUT, took the elevator up to our apt and just WALKED IN, started screaming at the few people that were left, and then went downstairs and called the police. Literally, she didn't stop screaming for like an hour and a half. We sufficiently scared the people that were there, and they obviously left. The police were clearly used to dealing with Linda, as she calls them regularly on the people below us for no reason. Basically, we tried to make nice with Linda the next morning, and things seemed to be going well until last night when we settled rent matters with her. She is insisting that we owe her more money for the flooring that was put in upstairs, and when we paid her the agreed-upon amount, she starting screaming again, called her son, tried to call the police (wtf) and general ballyhoo ensued. I literally almost lost it. After we left to go to dinner, I told Sarah that I could NOT live there for a whole year. After discussing things with her and Jack, we came up with a strategy. We got up super early this morning, and agreed to give her the the full amount that she wanted for the floors and then terminated our rental agreement. She almost didn't sign it, but thank goodness she did! Phew - we're outta there by the end of the month. I literally feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. I felt so suffocated there; I had a terrible gut instict about it. Even though it is a huge, nice, amazing apartment, NOTHING is worth having an insane person living below. Nothing. It was an expensive mistake to make, but I'm chalking it up to a learning experience.
So you people who haven't visited yet (all of you) I guess you'll see my new apt when you come! What a busy and eventful weekend. Fun, stressful, and busy all at once. Work, here I come!
ciao ciao
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