The big move!

Ben is off to another late night class on campus, so I thought it was due time I filled all our faithful correspondents in on what has been happening in our lives.

First and foremost I am proud to announce that we are officially moved into our new apartment! Hurray! The change is like night and day. Our new place has wonderfully high ceilings and naturally lighting galore coming from our very own gorgeous bay
window. Too bad the window doesn’t actually face the bay, it faces shady one way street and another apartment, but it is still beautiful.

Moving was an ordeal. Seeing as we had no furniture or earthly belongings, we had to go around from garage sale to garage sale picking up random things. The first sale we stopped at was a winner. We bought two “retro” chairs. One of them is a funky gold yellow color and actually cool, the other green one is an absolutely hideous green rocker, but Ben adores it and when the lady offered us both chairs for $20, there was no holding back. Getting them both into the car was a whole new adventure but after about 20 minutes of struggle, we managed.

We then hit the goldmine when we stopped at a place that advertised a very sturdy industrial looking desk. The guy was moving out the day and started offering us everything that was left in his house, which included a lovely glass coffee table on wheels and a KING size bed! The bed is incredible. I can lay on one end and Ben on the other and with an outstretched arm he doesn’t even come close to touching me, its brilliant. We offered the guy $100 bucks for everything and left feeling very smug.

Then came the dilemma of how to get everything to the new house. We were initially planning on taking a few trips in my friend’s small truck, but with the oversized bed we were out of luck. So we rented a big uhaul van! We stopped to pick up a few more random items before moving in the next day.

The guy who lived in the rooms before us didn’t clean anything and the landlord didn’t have time to hire someone to come in and do it, so I was thoroughly disappointed. But after a quick run over with a vacuum and rags we moved all our stuff in and really made it feel like home. We are both still in awe that we actually live here, I hope you will all come and visit us so we can show it off! 

We are just a few blocks away from the BART station, so its easy for me to get to work and there seems to be a lot of other attractions within walking distance such as the Civic Center, the Ballet, the Opera and other small theaters, and some smelly homeless people scattered here and there. We are excited for the weekend so we have a better chance to explore the surroundings.

Well once again I have authored a novel, so I best be off to bed. We hope you are all doing well and we send all our love to you. xxx