Monday, 11 August 2008

• Facination

  

  Everything changed when I met you.  It was just a simple smile, a simple thought, and I realized that there's more to life than what I've already seen.

  You have completely facinated me in such a short amount of time, and it's completely ridiculous what's going through my head.

  You've opened up my eyes, and now I know that there's something out there far greater than I could of ever imagined.  All the achievements are real, and all my goals are seemingly more realistic.

  It's interesting how a unplanned event, and seemingly normal and insignificant event can change someone so dramatically.

  I'm not sure if I'm happier now with where I am, or if I'm excited and happier of what's to come.  You've shown me that in the dense of it all, there's at least one that really shines.

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  Spent a lot of time last weekend with friends!  We had margaritas on Friday at work to celebrate our intern, Jay, going back to school after spending a summer working at Yardbarker.com.  The company also shrank a bit too that Friday, and it was pretty empty.  It felt a little strange, I now have the "silo of creativity" to myself and it's a little weird.  I need Kevin to come back to the Yard!!  We're moving soon anyway to 2nd and Mission St,  San Francisco (end of the year), so it won't be long until I'd have to move things around anyway.

  After work I headed over to the gym, worked on my chicken legs a bit, did the usual ab hell, and then strolled over to Bay Street.  I visited my favorite stores (Williams and Sonoma, Pottery Barn), got a few things and some Hummus from CPK and went over to Nancy's new pad.  She has a brand new condo in Emeryville, so it was slightly a house warming party / olympics opening ceremony hangout night.

  Saturday I washed my car, went to Mission Bay area (King St.) to meet with a few agents to see some condos.  Joe and Steph came along with me and we met with Ramon Ariza (agent) at The Beacon (250 / 260 King St).  Let me just give this guy a plug: Ramon is incredibly friendly, nice, honest, and patient.  It was just nice talking to him, and I didn't feel rushed at all.  He's a really great agent to work with.  Anyway, the Beacon is pretty cool.  It's not the newest of buildings (like the Infinity and Radiance I talked about last week), but it is still pretty new being built in 2004.  The coolest thing about it is, you can take an elevator to Safeway!!!  There's also a panera bread across the street, and down the block (no streets need to be crossed) is a Borders and Amici's Pizza. SWEEET.  Muni, Caltrain, they all run right past the building.  You can also walk across the street to AT&T park and watch some Giants (lose... A's fan here).  The building isn't as fancy as Infinity, but it still has a new modern feel to it.  The floor plans are decent, but my favorite was a unit on the 4th floor.  I walked in and I immediately had a good feeling about it.  Large windows in the living room, large window in the bedroom, the kitchen situated nicely with an island... sweet views.  The complex also has a saltwater swimming pool, gym, clubhouse, two jacuzzis, amongst other ammeneties.  Unfortunately, no deeded parking =(  Parking costs another $105 a month, and the HOA is $575.  Sucks!  The gym is small, but has everything I'd use.  The free weights are slightly lacking, but I would be able to make due.  There were people hanging out by the pool, and plenty of nice people walking around.  It felt like a place I would happily live.  Heck, Pfizer is moving to the area too!

  After seeing a few units at The Beacon, I headed over my my coworker's party at SOMA Grand.  The building is new as well, and we all congregated on the party deck for some beer pong.   I didn't like the floor plan as much or the building as much as The Beacon... and the neighborhood is a little shadey.  I didn't play any beer pong, but watched my friends and co-workers get drunk off of beer dunked by dirty ping pong balls.  HAH!  View was nice, and the food was fantastic!

  Left the party to have some food, then to Sugar Cafe and The Cellar in San Francisco for drinks and dancing.

  I'm getting tired of writing boring stuff... so I'm going to shorten this up... after basketball on Sunday, watched "We Own The Night" which was fantastic.

  Today coming back to work, the office and everything felt normal again.  Slightly emptier, but most people were back in the yard, back from their vacations and what nots.  Got to play some basketball, then went out to lunch at Barney's Burger with my coworkers.  It was good and lots of fun!

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