Never thought I'd say this...

...but I found an apartment complex I'd love to live in. So, here's your free advertising, Delancy Apartments.

Grace and I have been trying to keep Sunday for God and bonding, and leaving REI in the office. So, to get out of the house we walked down to Shirlington to go to this bread place. (Yeah, we're reduced to eating bread--but not yet the $1.50 grocery store bread, the boutique bread with esoteric names.) Along the way we impulse shopped a new apartment complex that just went up nearby. We wanted to gauge our competition for when we put our place on the market as a lease option. I expected, oh, I dunno, maybe a new apartment smell, but what we found was beautiful. Not chocolate fountain and bathroom butler beautiful, but close.

My ignorance has always killed me, but lately it's been particularly painful. Even if we'd gotten a high-end apartment like this, we still could have gotten out of it if a situation like we're now experiencing ever arose. The Delancy apartments--even the low-end ones--have tons of room, multiple full bathrooms, lots of light, big kitchens, and not-boring floor plans. The one we considered in the realm of "possible" was approximately $400 less than what we pay now. Not a huge amount, but still, it would give us breathing room financially and physically.

We have no intention of getting one of these places, but it's nice to know you can get a lot for, in some cases, a lot less.

Sigh. It's a good thing ignorance doesn't cause cancer. Well, I guess if you don't know lead kills and you like to lick lead paint, that could be cancer-causing ignorance. But then, that's also Nature's way saying you probably shouldn't exist...

But I digress, as they say.