sorry i haven't posted, amigos.
this week has been super crazy.
steve and i spent a lovely weekend last weekend in san fran, searching for an apartment.
steve had made us many, many appointments, and so we spent friday running all over town. we had two that we really, really liked, and so we were psyched right away. i mean, we realized we were going to have to pay and arm-and-a-leg, and so we focused on just finding something nice within our price range.
the two that we were excited about on friday weren't beat by anything we saw on saturday morning, so we went to see them both again.
both happened to be in south beach, which is a newer area, and right by pacbell park. the upside is that it's got a lot more going on than the 'newer' area that we live in here in chicago, and that it's still within walking distance to work if i feel like it (and there is indeed a train if i'd rather do that).
so anyhow...
the first one that we saw and reallyreally liked was in a community that was built in 1988 and has several buildings around some courtyards with a pool. the buildings are various heights, and the apartment was a two bedroom/two bath with pretty good closets and an *amazing* rooftop deck that was basically the size of the living room.
the second one was just built last year and has a two floor open area for the living room, tons of built-in storage, in-unit laundry and has a gym on the building's second floor. there's a gigundous master bedroom, an open area upstairs off of the living room (kind of like a large balcony) and a den that is where you enter the apartment. it's not really the sort of place where you'd have two bedrooms, but it's the *perfect* place for a huge bedroom, a home office, and a den (for my library and the TV).
so we ended up going with the second one, even though there's no roofdeck. we were silly and didn't take photos, but there are two sites online with renderings of the building. you can see it here and here.
we're really psyched!

then we got back to chicago, had a moving company (practically a squadron of people -- 6 of them) come in on tuesday and pack and cart away all of our stuff (very traumatic for a control freak like me, but still very cool that we didn't have to pack it all up!) and now we're living out of a couple of suitcases. we left our mattress here and ordered a new one for san fran (we desperately needed one anyway) and we've got the fun things that moving companies won't take to keep us amused: the open liquor bottles, my matchbook collection and our plants. :)

work is a little crazy since i'm pretty focused at this point on the west coast accounts. i was actually told not to come to a client meeting at my chicago client's office today, which made me sad. i know i need to learn to let go, though, right?

tonight i went with a vendor and my awesome team at work to dinner and then the bulls game. i'm going to miss a lot about this town. the people i work with are amazing. it's an awesome restaurant town. the architecture is beautiful and inspiring. the bulls, however, don't make that list. :) i think i'll still root for the sox, though. time will tell. after all, we'll be living just a stone's throw from the giants. maybe i'll expand to actually liking baseball overall.

nah. probably not. i'm from michigan.