Cocktails!

so i have spent ALL week fussing about this house, literally HOURS on the phone with the lender, our contractor, the realtor etc, only to come to the conclusion that even though this is the ONLY house in laurelhurst we could afford, we can't afford it. what a pain in my ass this has been. had we NOT bought this house and merely rented for the past three years, we could easily be in the house but instead we own a house that we would get 100K less than what we paid (not counting the thousands we have spent on the house). story moral - buy the cheapest house in the best neighborhood, not the best house in the cheapest neighborhood. oh well what do they say about hindsight, well we don't have it (hindsight that is). so we'll stay in our good house in the shitty neighborhood and enjoy another idealic summer on our back deck having COCKTAILS, like we did today. and i'm pretty happy about that!