I've been dreaming about my old house in New-Brunswick all week... And now it's almost midnight, I can't sleep, can't stop thinking about that house... And I just wanna go back to it, now... It was the best house I've ever lived in... So many good memories.
I hadn't thought about it in a long time and suddenly BLAM! ... Right there, in my mind....
I miss the place so much....
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I've only noticed the metal fence recently since Justin moved into that area. Not sure how long it's been there, but yeah... I only had the chance to see that house a few times before you moved, but I loved it very much (I still remember you forgetting your keys for the Halloween party and us trying to find a window to get into. Gilles was dressed all in black and looked like a thief. I was SURE someone was gonna call the cops on us LOL). I ended up buying a house with a similar layout (the split enterance and upstairs anyways, basement has been finished differently), a smaller version of your old house is what I always told myself lol
It's sad that the people after you guys don't seem to be taking good care of it. Peter and I are planning some renovations to bring up the value of our home (Hardwood floors upstairs, finishing more of the basement, better and more durable pillars to replace the ones in front of the house now, painting that yucky pink room lol), but then I'm wondering if I'll really want to move after putting so much time and effort into it :/
I didn't live there as long as I would have wished, but the memories in this house are just overwhelming. I too remember the Halloween party! It was the BEST Halloween Party ever! I would have laughed if someone had called the cops XD We got lucky my parents returned in time lol And he kept doing Waspinator while Michel humped him.. Damn that was hilarious lol
To be honest I haven't felt at home in any house as I have in this one. Even though times were tough until I got to Mathieu-Martin, I still had great memories there. It was a bit big, yes, but you didn't really notice it after a while when you lived there. And it made for running around easier
I also miss how quiet the town was. Nothing ever happened over there, and the biggest mall was Champlain - you didn't even have to lock your car doors, that's how quiet and nice it was lol I realized how much it grew when I visited in august. When you got married I didn't have time to see the town since we were too busy, lol. Well... you know me, I'm not a big city person (I don't really like Ottawa and I despise Toronto with a passion lol ) so it was weird to see this once small town grow so big. I mean, come on, when you think that their main attraction was Magic Mountain and Crystal Palace back then, you know they've come a long way when they're about to build a Casino lol
I'm pretty happy that Moncton is growing. Since the first time I went to Ottawa I knew I was a big city girl lol I always found Moncton to be too small when I was younger, but I find that now it's grown to a really nice size. The greater Moncton area resembles Gatineau now, I find, which is just perfect for me. Now all we need is your bus system! LOL!
But the guy who bought our house let it all go as well. Never cut the plants outside, made it some kind of un-loved batchelor pad, it was such a beautiful house that we renovated ourselves. It's a shame, and you can't help but take it personally.
I went back to New-Brunswick a few times a year at first, and the house looked fine. Then, thanks to both my job and college/university, I couldn't go as often as I wanted to go. My mother goes back in that region once in a while due to her work, and one day she returned and told me how the house had deteriorated... I just started crying. I know it's just a house and the memories will live forever, but I guess a very small part of me still wanted it to stay as is so I could, maybe, buy it someday lol Of course, it wouldn't be possible, not today. Now that I work at the government, there would be no place for me to transfer to in that region, and there would be no job for Rick.
Still, there's this strong attachment, and as you said, you can't help but take it personally when you see something you care so much about being left to witter...
Is the house too far away to visit it?
What makes me sadder is that I know the owners after us butchered the place. My mom goes back to town on business trips and she saw all the trees had been cut so it exposed it completely, and a metal fence had been risen around it. It looks like a prison now... albeit the large kid toys all over the place. We think it's a daycare center now... and as good as it would be for children, I know the whole place will look like crap would someone else buy it. It breaks my heart because my mother and father poured so much of their hearts in this house... I mean, they re-painted and fixed everything in their time there that it augmented the value of the house twice as much as when we bought it!
Oh noes!! Well I know how that is. We had this pretty HUGE (that I would add some imagery in the words) in the front of the house which was cut down, along with his other trees. Then they painted the house blue... it's ugly! DX