two too many

Yes, it’s true.

Yesterday I put an offer on an apartment. Today I found out that the offer had not even been rejected, but entirely overlooked by the sellers. They are now in negotiations with another party who offered them a ‘sweeter deal’. I was not given the opportunity to counter-offer… so now I am out of the game.

Above you will see a couple photos of the place. Understandably, it was the kitchen that I was most in love with. YUM!

Therefore, there will be no purchases of *biblical* proportions this week, unless that truckload of bibles things pans out.

I had expected that purchasing an apartment would be:

a/ less complicated – who was I kidding?

b/ more stressful – but I guess I have never had much of a ‘sense of doom’

The only reason that I put an offer on a place so soon was that the apartment really was too good to pass up. Most people know that I have been saving as aggressively as I can, in hopes to start looking in January 2007.

Now that I have done the legwork to establish a real estate agent (thanks again, Urs) and a mortgage broker, I think that I am going to go full steam ahead. I am in no hurry, to be sure, but it would be nice to be settled in to my own place before hexmas this year.

Me, Lief and Miss Missyfuss look forward to having you over for tea + shortbread… if all goes well. I may even give in and have a real live Christ-mas tree this year, just for the novelty of it in our new home.

:: sigh :: I cannot pretend that I am not disappointed. I had really fallen in love with the little apartment. But it was not meant to be. Lief reminded me that better things are always around the corner… if you are looking for them.

In which case, I am going to have one hell of a lovely home to invite you to. The hunt is on!