Anne and Richard

Anne and Richard are old friends of mine. I have not seen them in such a long time and thanks to the magic of Facebook we are now in touch again.

I think of them as magical in a way. We had a few adventures with them that make the think this. Particularly the night we went to see Tom Petty at the Forum, lost our key in the crowd of 1000's, but found it. Ran out of gas in the parking lot (in the parking space we had just found). Ran into a friend at the end of the concert in the parking lot who just happened to have a full gas can. Then we went to Shipps.

Shipps was a 50's style diner that had a toaster at each end of the table. It was at the far, short end of the rectangular table. Richard sat opposite it (at the other far, short end of the table). He tossed two pieces of bread over the table they circled perfectly, spinning until they landed exactly in the toaster in the exact right spots. Amazing.

Thank you Obama!

Oh finally -- finally, finally, finally. Obama is here. I breathe a deep sigh of relief. The best part of the inauguration was his oath of office. The second best part was the helicopter flying away with Bush et. al. on it. It was a little surreal though -- it seems as if they were flying off to wreck havoc in some other unsuspecting place...let's hope not!

Today was an amazing day in SF!

I am not sure how long this great weather is going to last but boy is it nice! It was almost like summer today. Sunny, warm-ish, really lovely. I ran for a bit through Golden Gate Park and was glad I got out.

What a week!

Wow! Its been unbelievably nice here this week. Very spring-like! I talk to my friends in Illinois who have been experience 35 below with the wind chill temps and feel kind of bad...We've barely needed a sweater to go outside. Of course wait until July and August and it will be freezing here.

We live near Golden Gate Park and have our own little micro-climate (lucky us!). Unfortunately it makes it foggy and cold here during the months when it should be hot. We had friends visit last August and we actually wore coats to go to dinner down the street.

Ciao for now while I go outside and enjoy!

The clown lady and her dog

We took "possession" of our house almost a year ago (12/29) --and moved in on Jan 2 (Ed's BDay) - I quickly started taking the dogs to Golden Gate Park (which is very close to our house). On our first trip there I wanted to find the dog park so I could let the dogs run for a bit. Of course, I did not know exactly where to go.

I ran into a clown and her dog. No kidding. There was a clown (at least her face was painted clown-ish) and her dog (and this was around 8am) -- I asked how do I get to dog park and she told me. I took the dogs and it was fun. But I thought, this would never happen in Santa Ana...

So this to me is so SF -- I got directions to the dog park from a clown and her dog. This place is the bomb.

Another thing I love about SF

We live near Cole Street and this morning we walked to Cole and Parnassus and went to the patissarie (sp?) and I had a double latte that came in a great latte bowl. I love this place! I'll post pictures soon! This place is VERY French (my friend Pam would love it) - the pastries are delicate and wonderful and the coffee is amazing.

They serve this fruit, granola and yogurt dish for breakfast that looks incredible (if I was the type who ate something healthy for breakfast) -- yum!

We moved to San Francisco because we wanted neighborhoods to walk to -- we definitely got that! It's one of the best things about living here. Next, I'll rave about Keezar Bar...

SF has a great music scene

One thing I love about San Francisco is the music. I am totally reliving my 20s. I live right off the N Judah train which can whisk me to the Warfield or I can catch a bus to the Fillmore. It great. I don't even need a car. Since moving here I've been able to see the Arctic Monkeys, the Dandy Warhols, Los Lobos, Ray Davies, John Hiatt, the Fratellis, and more. Its so great.