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Oct. 30th, 2006 08:08 am
daylight savings time
I love the extra hour we gain in the fall. It means I actually wake up not grumpy for a few days. Anyway, I have today off!
We went to Park's BBQ, and almost everyone made it. The staff was pretty nice (be warned the receipts are in Korean so maybe next time we might do separate checks), and the kids liked the food, too. It was a lot of fun, delicious, and everyone bonded over the awesomeness that is Battlestar Galactica. I know, I know, we're such dorks.
Afterwards, we visited with Mark's aunt and uncle. If there's one conversation you can't get away from in California, it's real estate. So there was a lot of discussion of that over the weekend - we even checked out a couple of open houses around his parents' area, and then briefly considered moving down there again. It's not like Los Angeles is even remotely affordable for the average person, but at least you'll feel less ripped off. We saw a house with a gorgeous view, a pool, large rooms, decent kitchen, about forty years old - $850,000. (Supposedly real estate in Los Angeles is totally taking a beating - many of the signs we saw had "reduced price" on them.) $850,000 in the Bay Area is what you get for a shitty tiny two bedroom, one bath, no view, no pool, barely a backyard, that hasn't even been remodeled or updated in the past forty years since it's been built. $850k is a fixer-upper. *sigh* In San Francisco it might buy you a two-bedroom condo.
I don't know. I really, really want to stay in the Bay Area. Eventually I'd like to own a home. With a yard. But it's not going to happen as soon as I'd like it to.
I also got to play around with Mark's cousin, little Anthony, kindergartener, owner of inch-long lashes. He had a best friend, named Zack, who was around his age, who was also really cute. I ran around chasing them, and then when I took a break to talk to Mark's aunt, they came up and asked me, "Can you come and get us?" It was a fun weekend overall.
We went to Park's BBQ, and almost everyone made it. The staff was pretty nice (be warned the receipts are in Korean so maybe next time we might do separate checks), and the kids liked the food, too. It was a lot of fun, delicious, and everyone bonded over the awesomeness that is Battlestar Galactica. I know, I know, we're such dorks.
Afterwards, we visited with Mark's aunt and uncle. If there's one conversation you can't get away from in California, it's real estate. So there was a lot of discussion of that over the weekend - we even checked out a couple of open houses around his parents' area, and then briefly considered moving down there again. It's not like Los Angeles is even remotely affordable for the average person, but at least you'll feel less ripped off. We saw a house with a gorgeous view, a pool, large rooms, decent kitchen, about forty years old - $850,000. (Supposedly real estate in Los Angeles is totally taking a beating - many of the signs we saw had "reduced price" on them.) $850,000 in the Bay Area is what you get for a shitty tiny two bedroom, one bath, no view, no pool, barely a backyard, that hasn't even been remodeled or updated in the past forty years since it's been built. $850k is a fixer-upper. *sigh* In San Francisco it might buy you a two-bedroom condo.
I don't know. I really, really want to stay in the Bay Area. Eventually I'd like to own a home. With a yard. But it's not going to happen as soon as I'd like it to.
I also got to play around with Mark's cousin, little Anthony, kindergartener, owner of inch-long lashes. He had a best friend, named Zack, who was around his age, who was also really cute. I ran around chasing them, and then when I took a break to talk to Mark's aunt, they came up and asked me, "Can you come and get us?" It was a fun weekend overall.
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