final weekend in CV

the last few months i've often said to myself, "i'll never get to do _____ again..." a while ago it was walking home from work with M. then it was working w/ last year's recruits. now it's everything we do in our apartment & our neighborhood. funny thing - a few months ago i was complaining about how bored i am with Charles Village - i've walked everywhere i can walk from here, been everywhere around, there's nothing new, it's always the same old thing. but those are all things i'll miss a lot. we can't walk to the waverly market or downtown or to work or around guilford or to the book thing or the bank or to the halal meat & grocery. we will no longer be 10 minutes from everywhere (this was never really the case, but it sure felt like it).

we've packed up most of our belongings, moved a good bunch of them to the new place (thanks D for all the heavy lifting). there's still a good amount of stuff in here but it's strangely echoey. feels pretty crappy. i can't wait to get settled into the new place. it's hard to feel unsettled - especially for home bodies like me. it makes me a bit nuts.

side note: i hate bugs. i don't actually hate bugs. i usually do my best to capture & release them outside. but not these annoying little bugs that are suddently all over our apartment. i've never seen them before. they're similar to fruit flies with dark brown bodies. i don't know if they started in the flour or if they found the flour, but that was the first infestation i discovered. i cleaned out our pantry cabinet today & found them in 75% of all the dried grains and beans. gross...

so we finally heard back from the owner of Lino's House with a counter offer of $5k less than the asking price. we offered $20k less, so it's still a bit of a jump. it's not that we can't afford the asking price. i don't happen to believe the house is worth the asking price because of all the "updating" required (i don't consider adding a tub/shower to be updating, but whatever). i also worry about us being able to afford house payments if we were to start a family somewhere down the line & one of us was not working... & when we started this whole house hunting process, we both felt sure we wanted a house that needed a little cosmetic work - definitely nothing that needed this much of an overhaul. but here we are. we both like the place a lot - manageable size, affordable price, lots of character... i guess we'll see how it goes. once we agree on a price, we still have to do the zoning appeal for a driveway. who knows what will happen with that. we may not get approval & the whole thing would fall through & that would seriously suck. cross your fingers that all goes well.

D has now taken to calling me "Mrs. Ed" & telling me i eat like a horse... he's so fun.