Saturday morning I finally decided to use my Joffer pass at Bikram Yoga Seacliff. I was actually really nervous! I’ve never done regular yoga (unless doing it on the Wii Fit counts??) and I went straight for the hardcore hot yoga. What do you wear to Bikram yoga? How much water do I drink before? Do you wear shoes? It was all a mystery to me!

As soon as I walked into the building I was punched in the face with heat, and this was only the lobby! As I started stripping off my clothes (seriously I was burning up already and I wasn’t even in the actual studio yet! I knew I was going to die!) I looked around to see what other people were wearing. My shorts and tank top seemed to blend in pretty well, and no, shoes are not worn during Bikram yoga. I was feeling like I fit in pretty well…that is until I saw the booty shorts wearing hot girl. Mental Note: Don’t stand next to this chick in class.

No I didn’t stand next to this girl, I sat next to booty shorts wearing old man, who’s light grey shorts quickly became dark grey shorts. GROSS! Well he wasn’t the only one sweating his balls off! Within the first 2 minutes as I was bending down in the first yoga position I felt a drip of sweat fall slowly down the back of my leg from my ass. DOUBLE GROSS! I didn’t know people’s asses (including my own) could sweat so much! Anyone wearing anything but black suddenly had different color clothes on. I know! I’m totally grossing you out, but I’ve seriously never sweat so much in my life!

The best part of the whole experience was when our 20 pound Bikram yoga instructor said to spread your legs and touch your forehead to the floor. I actually started laughing! She’s kidding right? NO! She was not kidding! I immediately looked around the class to see if anyone else was laughing, and thats when I noticed everyone touching their heads to the floor! Are you fricken’ kidding me! Yea, so my head has a long way to go before it gets any where near the floor unless I pass out, which almost happened about 5 times throughout the hour and a half session. I loved when she said that “our goal is to only take one water break throughout the session.” As soon as she said that I suddenly became ravenously thirsty! Like I was going to die if I didn’t have water that second! As she walked towards the other side of the room I quickly took a swig of my water bottle and quickly got back into head-on-ass position.

Although I felt like I was going to die at any moment throughout the entire class, I felt so good afterward. The instructor was so nice and encouraged me throughout the whole thing by telling me how “good” I was doing, and that one day I would be able to touch my head to places I never thought possible. My legs were jello as I walked out of 105 degrees and into the 50 degree Seacliff streets, but I felt awesome! My finger tips even felt awesome! All I know is I have never sweat so much in my life and I’m sure I smelled like a farm animal afterwards and that is why even the bum who got on the bus wouldn’t sit next to me. I truly feel bad for whoever had to sit in my bus seat after me. Sick!

Today I pretty much can’t move and I feel like I have been hit by a bus, but I guess that’s a good thing(?) I will be back as soon as I can lift my body out of my bed.

♥ Casi

NIKKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you enjoy this awesome book!!! I absolutely loved it, and I’m sure you will too! I want a full report by MONDAY! JKKKK!!

Now all you people who weren’t lucky enough to win this book, go buy it on Amazon!

What is my goal in life?

Experience as many things as possible in my lifetime.

Why?

So I can say “I did that.”

Why?

HAPPINESS

As many of you know I moved here from Los Angeles almost a year ago. What you might not know is why. I moved to San Francisco in the pursuit of happiness. This city is so open to a variety of people, all in the FREE pursuit of THEIR happiness. Whether it be to start their own business, get a great job, find a girlfriend/boyfriend, write peotry, sing music, dance, run marathons, play sports, or just be as different as possible. Some may argue that Los Angeles can offer the same things, but to me it just didn’t have the same freedom as I feel I have and I think everyone has here in SF. I love this city because it has encouraged me to have more EXPERIENCES in less than one year than I have had in the past. Well, that’s probably not true since this one year of experiences is battling with 24 years that I have not been in SF. But I feel the ones I have had here are more meaningful to me.

This whole pursuit of happiness post sprouted from a new book I read this month, Delivering Happiness – A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh CEO of Zappos. He is a business entreprenuer in the pursuit of happiness. “Ultimatly, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, pasion, and purpose in both business and life.” As someone very interested in business and technology I did enjoy this book for his story on how he made Zappos what it is today: one of Fortune magazine’s top 25 companies to work for. But I also enjoyed it because of the personal story he tells about his pursuit for happiness. In his case it is to spread the word of HAPPINESS, which he does through his company, his friendships, and now this book. I learned some valuable lessons from Tony’s, and many of his friends, words in this book.

I highly suggest you purchase Delivering Happiness through Amazon, and for $13 how can you not?! But, just in case you don’t believe me when I express how good this book is I have an extra copy to give away to one of you lucky SFNoob readers. All you have to do is leave a comment here answering this question: What is your goal in life? I will anounce the winner on my twitter account on Friday June 11th at 4p.m. PST so make sure you are following me! And if you STILL can’t find a way to purchase this book, I am more than willing to let you borrow my personal copy if you leave a comment here telling me what your goal in life is. Also, find more inspiring stories about Tony and Zappos at the Delivering Happiness website.

So, lets get back to my happiness. Like I said my goal in life is to have as many experiences as possible. To help me get a little bit closer to reaching this I love to explore our beautiful city, San Francisco. In honor of the great book I got for free from Tony Hsieh and the rest of the Delivering Happiness team, I took the book with me on a park hopping adventure throughought SF. As you may remember I asked all of you which were your favorite parks in San Francisco. I put on my walking shoes, grabbed my book and I was off! Here is a bit of my happiness with the Delivering Happiness book.

Now get your comment on and win that free book I have for you! Remember to follow me on Twitter where I’ll announce the winner Friday at 4p.m. PST. GO!

♥ Casi

Disclosure: Although I was given this book for free to review on my blog, all words are my own and VERY VERY TRUE! Thanks Tony for opening up my mind even more.

DISCLAIMER: I’m just going to ignore the fact that I haven’t blogged in 16 days and hope you all still love me and don’t think I’m a huge San Francisco hater. Cause I love San Francisco, and to make up for my lack of SF enthusiasm I am listing 7 reasons why I love San Francisco (inspired by a post today on SFist). Here we go….

Most of this list comes from the amazing weekend I just had

1. Zip-Lining over the Embarcadero: Some people may be surprised to hear this, but there are little kids who get to do this everyday on their way to school! Yea, yea, we’re all supposed to feel bad for them, but I’m fricken jealous! Don’t get your panties in a bunch, I know it’s horrible and sad, but still! Just sayin’

2. There is no shortage of old women dressed in blue feathers wondering the streets

3. Bed Races: Not only are beds being raced for charity, but they were being raced by people who can touch the back of their heads with their foot. WHAT!

4. Dogfest: That’s right! A whole festival dedicated to all the cute dogs that live in this city. Unfortunately, I do not have my own dog. Also, unfortunate: no one abandoned their dog at Dogfest for me to gladly claim. NUTS!

5. Only in San Francisco can you spill a beer in your friends lap within the first 5 minutes of arriving at your destination and have everyone, INCLUDING the beer soaked friend laugh. Oh yea, AND have said beer soaked friend poor another been on his own lap to make us laugh even more. I’m guessing most of the credit goes to $1 day at Golden Gate Fields. $1 beers = Happy San Franciscans

6. Random marching bands down Haight St. all for the cause of sit/lie. I really have no comment on the issue. I have been lucky enough to not be one of the people sitting or lying on the sidewalks of San Francisco.

7. Sunsets at Ocean Beach. The picture says it all!

Why do you love San Francisco?
♥ Casi

I added a new page on SanFranciscoNoobs.com in honor of all the amazing SF bloggers I love! Check it out! and leave comments on that page with any other AWESOME SF bloggers that are missing.
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This is a list of some of my favorite San Francisco Bloggers. They all have their own unique voices but share one thing in common: They ♥ San Francisco as much (or more) as I do.

I would LOVE to have a beer with any of these awesome people…

—>Go to I ♥ SF Bloggers

I got on the 38L this evening at 6:00pm at Market and Sansome, going outbound with all my fellow downtown workers excited to get home. No one talks during these busy commuter hours, everyone is too busy with their favorite mobile device catching up on everything they missed out on during the work day. While catching up on all my favorite tweeters I suddenly heard a young woman scream, “HEY! He took my cell phone!!” She immediately ran off the bus and after the thief as we all looked around aimlessly and came out of our own little worlds. The bus quickly sped off from the Geary and Divisidaro stop, and we were all left wondering what exactly happened.

I’ve heard stories of this happening before but I was completely shocked to actually have it happen to the poor girl sitting next to me. It could have easily been my phone out that bus door in a second flat. I sure won’t be going into that after work commuter coma again!

With my lack of real world attention, I unfortunately did not see the theif. In fact I barely saw who the girl was, just heard her voice. IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST! Someone hold me!

♥ Casi

AND THE WINNER IS with 64% of the vote……………

Thank you everyone! You really made getting ready this morning a lot easier!
♥ Casi

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I can’t decide which outfit to wear on my first day of work tomorrow! I’ve ripped apart my closet trying to decide, and I have finally narrowed it down to two outfits. I NEED YOUR HELP!!!! I’ll tally the votes tomorrow morning and post a picture of the winning outfit! THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Outfit 1	Outfit 2

♥ Casi

It’s customary to be asked for references when applying for a job. Makes sense. Your possible new employer wants to be sure you’re not some crazy serial killer or con artist who has come up with an elaborate plan to infiltrate their company. Well, today I received an email from my BFF Kate. You may have seen her past letter of recomendation for me. She pretty much has signed up to be head campaign leader for “Find Casi a Job.” It’s a real campaign, and YES I take donations. You know, for the cause and all.

Anyway, my whole point is, if I could add Kate as one of my references I would. The reason I don’t is I believe she may be a bit too vulgar. Therefor her letters of recommendation/encouragement go on my blog:

WARNING: The following is mostly comprised of facts. If you have any negative thoughts on any of the below statements; just consider it false information.

Actual email I received from Kate: 2:58pm Tuesday, February 2, 2010
[Subject] Things I want:
1. Casi
2. To be sitting on a couch drinking wine with Casi
3. To go shopping at Forever 21 with Casi while she steals fur vests
4. To snuggle with Casi in her Snuggie
5. To not have school like Casi
6. To be laying on the beach working on my tan with Casi
7. To be drunkinly eating a cheeseburger with Casi
8. Oooo, El Coyotes margaritas with Casi
9. To sit with Casi and invent more pet names for ourselves
10. To get a pedicure with Casi
11. To get a manicure with Casi
12. To not write Casi’s name when I am typing at work (this may or may not have happened like 30 seconds ago – allegedly)
13. TO GO POLE DANCING WITH CASI
14. A puppy which I can play with when I am with Casi
15. To be at Casi’s house in SF right now
16. To have an iphone like Casi
17. To play ispy games with Casi when she solves them and they are inappropriately funny
18. To make fun of bad hair days and falic sculptures with Casi after she solves ispy games
19. To live with Casi so my life would never be bleak and empty like now (OOOO, what if we did live together?!? Would we be the fighting roommates though? I hate most everyone I live with.)
20. To go to a gay bar with Casi
21. To go to a hula hoop class with Casi
22. To win the lottery so Casi and I can retire and play together every day
23. To make sure Casi knows this email is probably the creepiest email I have ever sent, and I meant every word
24. To make sure that Casi knows I am not interested in sexual relations with her – I’m here strictly on a snuggle basis
25. Also to make sure Casi knows if she ever talks about period shits with me, I might vomit
26. To go wine tasting with Casi (well, Darren and Greg can come along too because we need someone to drive and someone to pay)
27. To sit and pet Casi’s soft hair (bonus if it has been washed recently)
28. To learn how to be hardcore like Casi and drink beer
29. To learn how to be hardcore like Casi and speak geek
30. To wear sweats all day like Casi (this is purely an assumption, but I would assume you don’t put real clothes on, and if you do – WHY?)
31. To beat Casi’s boyfriend at a burping contest (which for the record I have not lost, I just get too drunk to remember said contest)
32. To one day wear my furry boots in public with Casi when she wears her furry boots
33. To own a bumpit and legitimately convince people Casi and I are related to Snooki from the Jersey Shore and we have been cast in season 2
34. To own a bumpit and just look at it’s amazingness (with Casi of course)
35. To have Katester be one of those words on Casi’s website that grows when you say it a lot – like beer (but I’m clearly superior)
36. For the world to one day revolve around me and Casi (well, more so than it does now)
37. To not get pregnant by November so I don’t have to name my child Casi – mostly cause I don’t like losing bets
38. – Too inappropriate for SanFranciscoNoobs.com – Casi
39. To apologize to Casi for the obscenesss of #38
40. Casi

There is more, but I have to pee, then I have to try and stay awake during a fascinating lecture on commercial transaction law…but mostly I’ll be thinking about Casi. <3

♥ Casi
p.s. Beer

After hiding beneath my Snuggie all day, round two of the crazy storm that hit San Francisco seems to be over. She left behind this beautiful sunset (yes, it’s a she because only a woman could create such havoc. And yes I’m a woman who has been known to create havoc on occasion). TOTALLY WORTH IT!

♥ Casi

I woke up at 12:30am last night and stared at the ceiling for 3 hours thinking….thinking….thinking. Mostly about this blog and how I want to write more. It really is something I love to do, mostly because of all the people who read and enjoy it. I love everyone’s comments here and on Twitter and Facebook. It just makes me so happy to know that I’m not the only person who thinks what I have to say is somewhat interesting! December was a record breaking month for SanFranciscoNoobs.com thanks to all of you. I hope to keep this upward trend going!

So lets start the randomness!

Randomness #1: I never got a chance to talk about NYE 2010. A bunch of us got on a FREE bus to Embarcadero plaza to watch fireworks. Little did we know that everyone and their mom had the same idea! It took WAY too long to get there, and once we finally arrived we squeezed our way through about a million and half drunk people and frustrated cops. The fireworks were absolutely amazing though! Definitely worth all the hassle to get there. Check out the pics:

Randomness #2: I got an iPhone! I got an iPhone! I got an iPhone! Crossing that off my wish list.

Randomness #3: I went for my first major bike ride today, and I didn’t fall once! YAY! GO ME!

and P.S. San Francisco hills + me riding a bike = My butt and legs are not happy with me right now!

Randomness #4: Family and friends are out the door so it’s time to get back into the grind! This consists mainly of getting a job I love, keeping up with my 2010 resolutions, and watching as many bridal shows and reading all about how to be the BEST bridesmaid EVER for my BFF Kate.

Randomness #5: I’m just slightly OVER excited to make ice cream with Alli from AllisIceCream.com on Wednesday. Trust me….this will be a blog post! Hopefully one about how I didn’t ruin our batch of PB&J and Heath Bar ice cream!

Thanks again everyone for following my random thoughts, adventures in San Francisco, and my quest to do what I love most; write stuff you all love….or even like, just a little.

♥ Casi