Leaving (a piece of) My Heart in San Francisco

Dear San Francisco, How did six years go by in the blink of an eye?  It seems like only yesterday I arrived - hardened and slightly bitter from my two years on the east coast.  It was my second time moving to a city sight unseen and, unlike my first attempt, I instantly fell madly, head over heels, hopelessly in love with you.  With your majestic cliff sides, sparkling bay, countless parks…you were like...

The Road Trip

Our time in San Francisco is coming to a close.  Tomorrow we pick up the truck to pack up and then Thursday morning we are hitting the road!  After much debate, we decided that it just isn't safe to tow a big U-Haul trailer through the mountains in my Camry, so we are renting a 16 foot truck (whoa!) and attaching the Camry in a car carrier.  So, I will not be driving.  At all. After spending some time in...

What A Weekend!

We've gotten a lot accomplished in the last few days.  In addition to making almost 4 times the amount we estimated at our garage sale (what a success!) we also had a BLAST at our going away party Saturday night.  A huge thanks to our besties, Shawn and Kate for hosting the pre and post parties - what troopers! The other big news is that our visas have been approved!  But as The Hub says,...

Bon Anniversaire Mon Petit Chien!

Today is my darling Figaro Newton's 6th Birthday.  I can't believe he's getting so old.  In dog years, he is now officially older than me and The Hub! I had grown up with a dog my whole life (R.I.P. Shorty Oreo) and desperately wanted one of my own.  When I decided to move to San Francisco without knowing a single soul, I figured it was a great time to get a dog to keep me company. I started off looking...

Git ‘er Done

Thank God for friends.  The Hub and I have been working like dogs this week to try to accomplish all we need to do before the Garage Sale this weekend and last night Shawn and Kate came over to help us out.  Kate made a delicious dinner and the four of us took down our famous "Fillmore Wall."  You see, The Fillmore and The Warfield give away free posters at a lot of shows and The Hub and I have been to, well a...

Pack It Up, Pack It In

Moving sucks anyway you slice it, but I think I've been putting off packing because I was dreading the moment our house went from "our home" to "the place we're leaving behind."  We've lived in our house for 3.5 years and it truly was our home.  I remember being so excited about moving into this place back in 2007.  It was the first time I'd ever moved in with a boyfriend and it was the easiest move I'd ever done...

Last Day of Work Bed Beard

I can't believe that today is already my last day of work...again. It's another bittersweet moment for me because I was really enjoying my new company and new role. Even though I had already worked with this company as my client over the last 5 years, I've learned so much in the past four months as one of their employees. Fig will also miss coming to work with me. It seems like only yesterday he was riding in my...

2 Weeks From Today….

It's been a quiet week over here on the blog.  Between struggling to shake this nasty cold, finishing up my last week of work, and making preparations for our move, I haven't had a lot of time for cooking or blogging.  It's hard to believe that in just 2 short weeks from today, we'll be packing up our U-haul trailer and making the long drive back to the Midwest.  We have lots to do before then, including selling...

Rainy Week, Rainy Bed Beard

This week's Bed Beard post is going to be short and sweet.  Between the stress of moving, being sick for the last 3 days and the fact that it Just. Won't. Stop. Raining, I feel like all my energy has been zapped. I've been pumping myself full of Zicam, Sudafed, and Z-pack but I just can't seem to shake this bug!  And I better to do it fast because I have a very fun weekend ahead of me followed by 3 weeks of...

Opaque: Dining in the Dark

Last week, our friends Dawn and Marq invited us to join them at Opaque, a restaurant that allows its patrons to experience dining in a completely unique way:  in the dark.  This European trend arrived to SF a few years and the point is for the diners to use their senses of taste, touch, sound and smell, rather than sight, when eating.  All of their servers are either blind or visually impaired and are specially...