After last week-end and all this rain, I was a bit down but… it was before this week-end, and the beautiful sun all around the Valley!
It didn’t start as nicely though 
I remember when I was a kid, I was dreaming about the day on which I would finally buy my own furniture for my own apartment. During my student life, I bought only some basic stuff, but not “the” sofa, “the bed”… So yesterday was supposed to be a Big Day. To get this quick, it definitely wasn’t as rosy: I had the “love at first sight” for a sofa that was in fact available … in 14 weeks, so of course I started sulking and finding everything else ugly… Then we went to Ikea, which is an absolute nightmare: how comes this company is so successful??? Of course it’s cheap, but it’s a whole mess to find the stuff you want! If somebody had told me “give me 50 bucks and I will help you find all your stuff and you’ll just have to pay for it” I would have paid for it in the blink of an eye! End of the story: after two hours we managed to put everything on our cart to realize just before paying for it that Ikea can’t deliver at my place in two weeks, and that I need to come back 3 days before my desired delivery date!!! So we put everything back, I was sulking even more, becoming a real pain in the a**, when we finally found our sofa in Palo Alto (see picture)! An entire day just to buy a sofa, I know that’s a hell of a record But at least now I know where to find almost everything I need!
Fortunately, the evening was way cooler than the afternoon: we joined Seb and Anthea (that I met during my internship at eBay in France) in Palo Alto, drove to SF, had a drink with eBay France marketing team (here for a summit), then joined Nicolas and had a excellent dinner at EOS… I missed that so much: good food, great people, cool atmosphere, great city with real people…
Today, back to SF… The weather was simply awesome (despite what Nicolas’ iPhone seemed to indicate ;-)), I started to remember L.A. and the feeling of the sun caressing the skin… We went around Dolores Park, where you can find the sexiest guys on the planet, shirtless, but… obviously gay, sorry ladies, this is SF! We went from Guerrero St to Mission, and the atmosphere was very different from one street to the other: SF seems to be composed of really different neighborhoods with different atmospheres but sometimes really close to each other…. In Mission, we ate an ice cream in the middle of tattooed guys, homeless people, prostitutes, and gypsies playing guitar… Quite a surrealistic place, it was really interesting to observe people that are so different from me… That’s what I love in SF: difference is not just tolerated but encouraged, and you get to discover the most colorful things that mankind has to offer… OK, I will stop being poetic, a lot of people told me that I’m boring when I start like that 
All that just to say that I’m not happy to be back to San Jose, but I’ll be way happier when I’ll have my own place with my nice sofa
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Great WE indeed!
We have to do that again! We’ll visit another hotel
By the way, you didn’t say anything about my sofa: how is it???
I thought about that when clicking the Submit button
It’s very nice, I love the extension where you strech out your legs 
I’ll need to try it out in front of a good movie 
i see you bought your sofa … and it’s PURPLE!!!!
@millevazion: whenever you want! As long as you choose the movie and I choose the food
@lilian: welcome to my blog miss, it is so great to read one of your comment! I’m sorry to disappoint you, but my sofa is brown, not purple… But the rug will be purple, I promise, otherwise it wouldn’t be my apartment
thats a disappointment…. it looked purplish on the photos!
Sorry to disappoint you so much my dear… But you’ll see that a lot of things will be purple anyway