Monday, Monday (or Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let is Snow)
…or any other repetitious song title.
It’s the Monday after the blizzard. Snow fall totals weren’t that horrible. And the winds were NOTHING like that blizzard we had last winter (which seemed to drop nearly twice as much snow). Still, it was fun to watch.
On Friday night I went out to dinner with Sven. We headed out to Chestnut Hill and ate at Aquitaine. I had some quite tasty and tender (and fatty…which is how I like it) pork with green beans and squash. After dinner, we went to Rosie’s Bakery and indulged in some Boom Boom’s (cream cheese brownies) and chocolate chip cookies (which must have had a stick of butter in each cookie…..good….and good for you, too).
Saturday was reasonably productive with laundry washing, grocery shopping and attempting to visit my sister-in-law at the hospital. I got there and she was asleep. The nurses said she wasn’t feel well that day so they said they’d tell her I stopped by.
Then I got home only to have Sven call to say he was my neighborhood and that he wanted to stop by to discuss condo hunting again. He came back with a good idea, actually. We’d been talking about possibly getting two units in the same building (probably a triple decker). Lately, it seems like developers are buying out entire 3-family rental buildings, modernizing them with new kitchens and bathrooms and then selling them as individual condos.
However, Sven stumbled upon some listings for entire triple-deckers that are for sale for what it would cost to buy two separate units in the “modernized” ones. So, he suggests we buy an entire building. In the short term, he could take a floor, I could take a floor and we could rent out the other floor. In the long run, though, we could take the middle floor, split it down the middle and each get 1.5 floors (a townhouse, if you will). That would surely make the property unique and more desirable for resale value. And it would be cheaper than buying just one floor/unit. Something to think about. Plus, that way we’d have 100% control over who are neighbor will be.
That night, I headed into Dorchester to hang out with Mike. His friend, Andrew, called and offered to take us to the supermarket to stock up for the storm. So, we did. Then Mike and I watched DVD’s (Pecker, Wet Hot American Summer, Season 3 of 24), ate lots of food and just did nothing…
…until Sunday evening when the storm got light enough for me to take the subway back home. And now I’m at work and he’s got the day off since the city closed the public schools because of the snow.
It’s not fair.
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Karl, beware of buying something that you will rehab yourself. It will suck up your entire life, even if you pay someone else to some things. Do you really want that to cut into your gallivanting around??
I gallivant? he he.
HA! I watched movies, too, this weekend . . . only mine included one’s like “Mrs. Brown”. Hmm. I’m not even sure I’ve heard of the one’s you watched. 🙂
HA! I watched movies, too, this weekend . . . only mine included one’s like “Mrs. Brown”. Hmm. I’m not even sure I’ve heard of the ones you watched. 🙂
HA! I watched movies, too, this weekend . . . only mine included ones like “Mrs. Brown”. Hmm. I’m not even sure I’ve heard of the ones you watched. 🙂
Oh dear lord, Brad in triplicate! Is the world ready for that??
I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what happened. 🙂
68 degrees, clear and sunny — castro is full of pretty boys and handsome girls strolling about. …but I STILL need a job!