Happy February!
Here’s a pegboard I designed with my work friend, Angela.
I recently visited San Francisco for a brisk 24-hour work trip. I am a curmudgeon when it comes to the preparation necessary for a work trip, but I generally enjoy myself once I arrive at my destination.
Lily “helping” me pack.
Calcifer saw Lily and had to copy her.
Here are a few things I saw on my trip:
Super cool sculpture in the lobby of the hotel
The lobby of the hotel was designed by this interior designer from Seattle. She used some really cool lighting fixtures and sprinkled images of the Beatles throughout the space.
Playing Ticket to Ride with my coworkers while we wait for the power to come back on. #BayAreaProblems
At a Happy Hour with my San Francisco coworkers. From left to right: Bhavik, Travis, Minh (actually a Seattle coworker), Angel, Ferdilyn, Chris, and Sookhee. Missing Amy and Scott.
My coworker, Minh, and I at Rise over Run.
Minh wouldn’t let me go back to the hotel and order room service, because, “that’s not the point of travelling, Erin.” The view was nice but I really did long for room service, the original food delivery experience.
Minh was impressed I knew when we were close to the hotel, and I told him it was because I navigate based off the closest Nordstrom (our hotel was very close to a Nordstrom).
The view of San Francisco from Rise over Run, courtesy of Minh’s fancy Samsung phone.
And now for that hot, juicy content you’ve been waiting for.
I was exploring my hotel room, and I found this drawer. Given it’s location above the mini fridge, I naturally assumed it was full of delicious chocolate.
I assumed the Naughty Drawer was a snack drawer because there weren’t any frickin’ snacks in the room! I had so many beverages to choose from, including a $9 bottle of Evian, and naturally I thought such a swanky hotel would also offer guests snacks.
But no, it had two small boxes containing adult items. What a waste of a drawer. There was SO MUCH SPACE for a snacks in there.
Condoms and lube belong in a nightstand, not in a VERY DECEIVING DRAWER ON TOP OF A MINI-FRIDGE.
To say I was disappointed would be a major understatement. I wanted potato chips and cookies and they gave me sex stuff.
To recap the trip:
Anything labelled “Naughty” is highly subjective. I showed it a picture of the drawer a friend and she thought it would contain knives or something.
SF has a lot of dried crushed poo on the sidewalks. Also, hooligans wear ski masks at night which was pretty creepy.
If you pack for Bay weather, you will experience non-Bay weather
Minh might think I’m crazy. I told him my next mission was to make our offices shoe-optional, and he looked at me like I’d lost my mind. I elaborated on my shoes-are-foot-prisons-and-make-people-grumpy theory and he came around to my way of thinking.
Not everyone agrees you can only have a crush on a fictional character if they are over the age of 20
Erin! I love the way you write and am so happy that you are on the Substack train! 😂😂😂 the naughty drawer bit would be perfect for stand up comedy hahah