Vermont:
I got to spend a few days in Vermont with P's family at the country house. It was lovely. The place looks like it came out of a catalog, doesn't it? It used to be an old country house, but has now been renovated to be the perfect family gathering place. The old furnishings make quite the interior decorating set.
San Francisco:
The whole time during Thanksgiving, and the 3 weeks afterwards (until today), I was reviewing and navigating around the legal terms and jargon that would make me the partial owner of this place. Yes, as of today, I'm officially a homeowner. Remember all those posts about not feeling like I have a home? Now I can start to feel like, I'm making my own home. It is a beautiful, sun filled space full of possibilities (and thankfully seismic retrofits), and I can't wait to start a new chapter there. I feel so... grown up.Oh, and then our game finally got announced with our new publisher.
Los Angeles:
And then, in the middle of escrow, myself and 19 other coworkers drove down to Los Angeles in a convoy of Escalades, to attend this:
Where I saw this guy walking off the "red" carpet (really it was more periwinkle carpet):
Got to have a ton of free drinks and made friends and hung out with the creators of this (and find out that they're huge fans of us, which was a total treat!) in a small room with 15 people and urm, a "borrowed" Christmas tree. lesson: don't take ambiant, if you're not actually going to sleep.
And then the day after, I randomly saw this guy and gal and their little kid at lunch:And yeah, he is just as hot in person.
All in all, not a bad "weekend at work".It's been an oddball of an eventful month.
