The best thing about arriving somewhere in the middle of the night is the wonderful surprise you have the next morning when you first open your eyes.
So, this is the view we have lying in our bed.
What a lovely place. Blue water, snow on the top of the mountains, blooming trees and some beautiful blue birds that I've never seen before.
I really love lake tahoe in winter and summer.

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Tea time for me means Mariage Freres.
And Mariage Freres means Paris and its beautiful Mariage Freres stores. Something that I definitely miss here in San Francisco.

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From: "anitation" <anitation@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2009 9:18 AM
Subject: Morning starts with coffee
To: <post@posterous.com>

...most of the time. And I love my Chemex coffeemaker.
Does coffee taste better in a design coffee maker? Yes, it does. Because the pleasure preparing the coffee already releases all the happy chemicals in my body and drinking this coffee makes the chemicals last.

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It's been a while that we were looking for "the" coffee table.
We had several tables in mind. I really like the Gae Aulenti glass
table. But very expensive and needs daily cleaning.
I also love the Eames Elliptical Table. It should be an authentic one.
But we never really looked for one. I don't know why. Perhaps it was
just my fantasy but not his.
What we had in mind was a factory cart. We saw it first at
Anthropologie. Yes, they do sell furniture. Really old furniture. But
so expensive. Abusively expensive. 1400 Dollars for an old factory
card is just SO not considerable.
But there is Alameda Flee Market. A great flee market. Miles and miles
of furniture and old stuff and ONE factory cart for 500 Dollars,
delivery included.
And there it is; industrial and old and I love it.

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No in fact it's more an evening dolce.

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Diamond Heights in San Francisco somewhere on a stairway is this snake
enjoying the sun... or just waiting for us. I don't know. I have no
idea if this snake is dangerous or not. I just thought let's take a
picture as close as possible. If never seen a snake outside a zoo or
animal store. Oh not true. I had this neighbor in Munich who actually
walked his snake in our neighborhood. It was a boa. 2 or 3 meters
long. He fed it with small rabbits. Wondering if his boa is still
alive. And also wondering if it's allowed to have a boa at home. 20
years ago nobody cared.

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Taking the bus in San Francisco is easy. There is a bus stop at every intersection. All you need is 1.50$ and time. Sometimes you can spend 20 minutes waiting at a bus stop. You check the http://www.nextbus.com page every minute, you move with the sun to the edge of the sidewalk. You get cold, because there is always somehow an icy wind when you wait at the bus stop.
But when you finally made it onto the bus it's pure pleasure. Uphill, downhill and beautiful views of the city.

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A few weeks ago I got my piano tuned.
After 8 long years without playing I got so obsessed. I played night and day... until my neighbors knocked on the door. Very nice neighbors.
But anyway, either I stop playing at inappropriate time ranges or I move my piano to the other end of the apartment where it would face a concrete wall and no longer these ridiculouse thin plaster walls. I never understood why plaster walls are used to separate two apartments. The bathroom from the laundry room - okay, but not two rooms where intimacy is on the top of the list. I can hear my neighbor cough when I lay in my bed. Not cool.
I moved the piano. 

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while waiting for the bus which passes only every 20 minutes.

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I don't know how many slippers I've already worn dead. Most of the time they travel with me. I don't wear them every day but having slippers makes me feel home.

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Sometimes I would like to know more about a house. Who built it and when and why and what for?

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Me taking a profile picture for posterous.

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