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This week has been hard for me. I don’t deal with change or making decisions very well, and I’ve been faced with doing just that. My amazing roommate found a new 1 br apartment to suit her amazingness, so decided to take the opportunity and will be moving out. I was heartbroken! She is great, and also, owns all the furniture in the apartment. To make matters worse, our landlady took the opportunity to raise the monthly rent nearly $200. Poop.
So, I had to decide whether to find a new roommate or move out. Thanks to everyone who got on the phone with me while I cried about my really hard life. Anyhow, I finally made a decision, and it wasn’t what I thought I would do. I decided that I really want to live in Pac Heights with a friend of a friend that I met once 6 years ago. To answer your questions: Yes, it’s probably the most expensive neighborhood in SF, No, I don’t make that much money, Yes, moving is a pain in the ass, and No, I don’t actually know my future roommate very well, but sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith! And the new roommate, by the way, seems like she will be great!
However, it will be hard to leave my sweet Mission pad and face the reality of what $2500 a month will get you in Pac Heights.
My ideal kitchen:
What $2500 gets you:
I like to start my day with a luxurious bath:
Bathroom on a budget does not allow for this:
Cute Victorian!?
Not with that paycheck 
Okay, so I’m exaggerating. Those pics are actually of a tiny $1150 studio I looked at yesterday. I will hopefully end up with more than 100 sq. feet of living space.
Stay tuned for what happens as me and Natalie attempt to find a good apartment! Also, please come help me move.
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Say whaaaaaat? Yeah, I don’t know what it means either, but my boss recommended I take a workshop on doing that, and I got to get out of working for a day, so I was all about it (or ’bout it ’bout it, as I like to say).
Anyway, I won’t bore you with the details, but the workshop was about basically how to be balanced and not get burnt out at work. We had to take an “energy audit” where we evaluated our energy on 4 different dimensions (physical, emotional, human spirit, and something else new agey). Basically, I failed on everything except the physical. I guess when you sleep 9 hours a night and work out everyday, you’re left with no friends and a boring job!
But I’m going to change all of that, and you’re going to help! At the end of the class, we wrote down a “ritual” that we’d take up, in order to improve one part of the energy audit (I am totally not explaining this well at all). Basically, we made like a new year’s resolution and an action plan to keep it.
My “ritual” is around spending more time with friends and family- that means YOU, blog readers! My goal is to do something social two weeknights a week. I’ll never quite be at the Mamie level (my roommate who does fun things every single night) but it will be a start in helping me not feel totally run down. And maybe I’ll meet a boyfriend while I’m out doing all these fun social things.
Soon, it will be ME on the cover
Tonight is fun social night #1. Jess will be joining me for yoga and then we will east something delicious and I will return the snow gear that I borrowed from her. All right social life!
In other news I am, for no reason at all, attempting to do yoga every day this week. Can I do that AND go out two nights? Stay tuned…..
