Montreal Apartment

I found an APARTMENT!!

Yesterday my friend Karen asked if I wanted to go read in the park and I walked over to her house and was waiting for her when I noticed a for rent sign in the door of a building that I had noticed last year because if it's beautiful doors.

I called the number and Louise the landlord answered and offed to show it to me right then. She lives in the building next door and shares a balcony with the space that was for rent.

It is a converted attic of a building that is over 150 years old. She put in a huge skylight over the kitchen, lots of windows, painted it white and put it new wood floor. It's fantastic.

I asked her if I could rent it and she asked when I would like to move in. "In about an hour," I said...she could tell I wasn't kidding.

I went over this morning and paid the first month's rent, cleaned my sublet and walked by few posessons over to the new place.

It's perched on top of a three story building so it looks out west toward Mount Royal and catches tons of light. Today it is raining and it was still bright in the apartment.

I am in a word, happy.

Owen arrives on Monday and we'll hopefully move in that night (why are our schedules always so optimistic?)

We don't have a couch yet but we will be accepting dinner-guests, visits from friends and family, and housewarming presents starting this coming Friday, September 4th!