Home & Heartbroken

Whatcha want first, the good news or the bad news?

So, we spent a fantastic week in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania house hunting, sledding, and the like. We finally found a house we really loved. By week's end we were ready to make our offer and get the paperwork going. We had decided, I mean, we were already planning what went where and what colors we were gonna paint each room. So we drove by to admire our new home and solidify ourselves as new home owners and..to make a long story short, someone had just bought it, signed the papers just hours earlier. After a few moments of anger, sorrow, confusion and a long drive practically into New York we came to terms and made ourselves feel better with a few it-wasn't-meant-to-be's and a couple there'll-be-other-houses. Then we drove back to our room and took naps.

But we have moved on. Seriously, we are fine. It puts a whole new spin on things for right now. We're at a bridge we said we'd cross when we got to it, so...yeah.

But that was the bad news, hope you wanted to hear that first. The good news would be that after spending the whole week in greater Stroudsburg area, we feel really good about wanting to live there. We toured all the groceries, drove the backroads, checked out some of the locals, even found a little independent film theater that was playing Persepolis & In Bruges, and we're stoked. It really made us wana listen to old Iron & Wine.

More good news is that the rest of the trip was awesome. It snowed alot so we took to some wicked hills on sleds, spent alot of time just lounging around watching I Love Lucy and pigging out. Mostly, our menu contained chocolate covered caramels, pizza (in all it's forms), honey vanilla chamomile tea, banana cream pie pudding, chianti, and McDonald's deluxe breakfast. Not the healthiest of binges but, we were on vacation. And it was fanatastic!

Proof:








So while our primary objective was not fulfilled we had a blast in the meantime. And the house hunt will continue on into the spring. On the way home we had a long conversation about buying an empty lot and just building a house. Interesting. Anybody got John Pittman's number?