I really did leave my niece, Meredith, in San Francisco last weekend. On a hill in Pacific Heights. Of course, that was the intention all along since the whole point of the weekend was to get her settled into her new apartment. Meredith graduated from Villanova in Philadelphia back in May and starts a new job with PwC in San Francisco next week and in the interval managed to find herself an amazing apartment in a beautiful neighborhood!
Here is a little video tour of her apartment but I would suggest turning the sound down since I am babbling in the background.
The quality isn't great since I just shot this with my phone, plus I cannot figure out how to rotate the video clip so sorry about that. Still it gives you an idea of where Mere is living.
We had a really lovely weekend. Perhaps I shouldn't speak for Meredith, but I had a really lovely weekend with Meredith and if she didn't have quite as wonderful a time, at least she was gracious enough to fake a positive attitude. They were LONG days though! Meredith arrived with only two suitcases and two boxes of clothes and small items and we ran around the Bay Area looking for inexpensive furniture (mostly IKEA), sheets, towels, miscellaneous supplies, groceries, etc.
Meredith was very concerned about the cost of everything and we did try to be frugal; but I kept telling her that if her mother was truly concerned about containing costs of the move, then she shouldn't have put me--her sister with no financial good sense and a great love of decorating--in charge. Seriously, what was Margaret thinking? Despite me, we managed to set Meredith up for a very reasonable amount.
Mere will have three roommates - all strangers to each other - and shockingly enough, they all seem really nice and normal. Another Craigslist.com success story.
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I can understand Mere's concern about costs...after all, you helped me with my move...but I can say from experience that your suggestions were worth it. Then again, I had more disposable income than Mere, so I could afford to fund the suggestions that were worth it. But yet again, how much disposable income could a technical writer have?
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