Winthrop by the Sea

[judecorp]

We headed out of Rhode Island a little early today because my grandparents weren't around (bummer). We got rid of all of the donation stuff and I did a cursory sweeping of the basement, with a brief interlude from the useless "tenants" (I put it in quotes because they don't pay rent ever) stopping to tell me that they're going to pay some money "soon." Whatever.

Since it was a really sunny day and there wasn't much going on, Jen and I decided to check out my latest obsession, Winthrop. It's coastal and (fairly) affordable, and besides, The Dark Overlord is always going on about it. It's actually really cute, but kind of out of the way. Thinking about commuting to work from there makes me dizzy. I'm quite used to my 4 minute commute. (Spoiled.) But anywhere we might go to try to save some rent money is going to be out of the way. Unless gets a job that is outside of downtown, it makes sense to stay on the T. But if she ended up working elsewhere, then we'd need a second car. Either way, it sucks. It's just way too expensive here.

It IS quite lovely in Winthrop by the Sea, though. Lots of kids playing, lots and lots of coastline. There was so much sun today and it made the water look even more gorgeous. I almost wish it made sense for us to live on the Cape because I love having so much water around. (Quincy's just not the same, really.)

Jen got a 3.9% pay increase at her job. That's cool, but 3.9% of peanuts is still peanuts. To think that we're (together) making more than we ever have and we're broker than we were three years ago is kind of surreal. I wish someone would just hand me a big bag of money and get it over with.

Ultrasound tomorrow to see if I'm growing some follicles. Hopefully there's some good looking stuff in there. It's 4 days earlier than my last u/s so I'm thinking they probably won't be cooked enough. We'll see. I hope there's two or three!

Comments

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

I lived in Winthrop. It's REALLY out of the way, and you need to pay money to get into Boston via the only direct highway. It's in the airplane flight paths. (Can you tell I wasn't too impressed with Winthrop? :) )

[siercia]

You were just mad you didn't get to live in Brookline with the cool kids.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to RIDE MY DAMN BIKE all the way from Winthrop to Brookline! *sniff*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

But it's pretty there! And more affordable than where we are right now. We're trying to decide on some sort of plan of action for babymaking. We don't want to move until we're knocked up but we can't keep paying what we're paying.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. It has been 15 years since I was there, chances are some things have changed.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, the distance hasn't changed. ;)

We could move even further out to save more money, but then we'd have to buy a second car which would totally NOT save money.

I hate that it's so ridiculously expensive here and we get paid peanuts.

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

Hoping you see some good sized follies. Go babies, go!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sadly, not really. :( Hopefully on Thursday!

[vlindinhauer.livejournal.com]

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At first WbtS seemed quite far away, now, even with lots of backroad city access: it does not. 15 minutes ... 25 minutes ... I find little difference (in terms of commuting). Where I live (Winthrop Head, the beach bus stop) takes me 45-60 minutes to get to LIQUID. (Thats a 5 minute walk, a 10 minute bus ride, a 12 minute Blue line, a 6 minute Orange Line, then a 7 minute walk ... its the waiting for train/bus that is the time suck). I usually relish the commute in IPOD luxury

.... and yes, I can go on and on about the "Shangra La of Boston" that is Winthrop.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sadly, my commute does not involve iPod luxury because I need to drive around... and it's not all that exciting to drive 30-45 minutes just to drive around all day. But that's awesome that your commute is pretty easy. Having a lot of transfers sucks though, because you can't always control that sort of time.

It sure is pretty, though.