"we just gave $3000 to a stranger on a movie set in southie".

"we just gave $3000 to a stranger on a movie set in southie".  this is a sentence i never thought i'd hear my husband say to me.  we were in boston last week looking for a place to live.  but let me not start this post there.

bryan and i have watched 10 million episodes of hgtv's house hunters.  we started watching this show while in seminary, likely subconsciously or consciously because we were longing to be on the prowl for permanence. 

the time had finally come, after years of school and fund-raising, for us to begin our hunt for a place to live.  we began searching craigslist and contacting real estate agents.  the more realtors we talked to and the more searching we did, the more we realized that a 3 bedroom, pet friendly, non-broker fee apartment in roslindale was next to impossible.



some say we're ambitious for bringing our 9 week old baby on a house hunt to boston, but what choice did i have?  let bryan decide on a home all by himself?  he doesn't have 'mother-of-a-soon-to-be-crawler' eyes.  also, mya needed to be screened at her potential school next year so the thought of bryan AND mya house hunting together was enough to send me packing up our 2 month old babe. here we are in the boston commons after mya's screening (she did quite well, i might proudly add).  we went from 80 degrees in greenville to 40 degrees in bean town.  it was COLD!

on day 1 of our house hunt, i stayed back while bryan forged ahead and scoped out our options.  around lunchtime i got a call. 'you need to see this one'.  this apartment is a 2 story, philadelphia style in a 2 family home.  we met the owner, looked around, took a day to think it over, and decided it was the best option for our family.  the owners agreed!  very exciting. 

to seal the deal before heading back to greenville, we decided to meet the owner at his current place of employment, which happened to be a movie set in south boston for an upcoming tv pilot called 'gilded lilies' and takes place in the late 1800's.  that explained the horses i saw eating hay not far from where i was standing.  in the city.  maybe this will be my lucky break and i'll be able to try my hand at acting?  or maybe this 'landlord' we met on craigslist is heading out to vegas right now with our money and we're actually still apartmentless.  i have to admit, an adventure began when we left tallahassee 4 years ago.  i'm not sure we ever thought we'd be living in boston, or giving our money to a guy on a movie set in south boston.