toastykitten

We're moving to Los Angeles next month! We will be living in Silverlake and I am so excited about it. We are going to have a garden and be walking distance to a bunch of things. More specifics will be in a friends-locked post. But for now this is what I am excited about:

Silverlake Wine and The Cheese Store of Silverlake.
Driving in a place where people are actually skilled at driving. They may be assholes and there may be a ton of traffic, but they can merge properly and won't change their mind at the last second about which exit they want to take.
Living somewhere where I can go to the beach and enjoy it instead of freezing my ass off and running back to the car. (Why yes I am a total wimp, why do you ask?)
Cheaper. Better. Dim sum! AKA Monterey Park.
Trying to tackle as many places in Jonathan Gold's Counter Intelligence as possible. He is my favorite food critic ever and he knows where to get the best basturma.
The Griffith Observatory. (Just a mile away!)
MOCA. One of my favorite museums, ever.
Sawtelle Blvd.
The music scene! I have been checking out LAist the past couple of weeks, and it seems like there's always great shows going on.
Sun!
Living in the city instead of a suburban area where everything closes at nine.

I gave notice at my job last week. Everyone seemed pretty happy for me.
Anyway, I just started packing, and I have so far packed about eight or nine boxes and they are all books. And I am not even done yet. (I just told Mark and he just said, "You're really proud of yourself for that, aren't you?")
Just so you know, this was a mutual decision. Everyone keeps thinking that Mark is making me do this, but trust me, both of us want this and we've thought it through thoroughly.
Of course I'll miss all you guys in the Bay Area, but that is what phone numbers and emails and visits are for, right? (And GoogleTalk.) And we will be coming back up occasionally since most of my family is up here.
Wedding will definitely be in Los Angeles. I have my church and I am looking for a place to book the reception. And the photographer. And everything else. We'll see. I went with my mom today to get one of those gaudy twenty four carat gold dragon phoenix bracelet sets. People only wear them on their wedding day and then they put it in the safety deposit box forever. We went to this one place and the guy was all, "People don't wear those anymore! You should just get some diamonds or something." I got a pair that I could live with, but my mom was kind of disappointed because she wanted me to get this set that was really thick.

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