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  Date / Time: 3/10/2009 2:56 AM UTC

  “parting is such sweet sorrow”
  

  “parting is such sweet sorrow”

   

  I am happy to say that after three and a half years of marriage and parenthood, we have finally taken the next step and purchased a home. We make settlement on Thursday.  While I am excited about moving forward and having more room, I am going to miss the Feasterville Trevose area and this apartment that we called home for nearly four years. Despite some inconveniences, we have made some great friends and have so many wonderful memories.

   

  So I made a couple of lists of pros and cons, and some memories. No particular order.

   

  Things I’m going to miss about Trevose and Arbor Lane Apartments:

  1)      our friends – the Hill Family, and Pete the Bartender. Pete was the first neighbor to ever converse with us, and The Hill Family is great, and I hope that our girls will still be able to be playmates in the future.

  2)      Not having to pay utilities.

  3)      Full access to an in-ground pool.

  4)      Burger King on Bridgetown Pike

  5)      Genaurdi’s shopping center in Feasterville. Never went to that Genuardi’s but I’ll miss the Hair Cuttery and Lamberti’s restaurant, and the Spirit Halloween store, all in that same shopping center.

  6)      Kmart on Street Rd – the  Feasterville one

  7)      Feasterville Acme – so much better than the Bensalem Acme we’re moving near.

  8)      Lower Southampton Village, where Five Below and Starbucks and Brunswick Zone are located.

  9)      The Dollar Tree and Sparkles Beer.

  10)   Hunan Wok/Happy Star Chinese restaurant

  11)  Angela’s II. We call to order, they have our apt #, names, debit card, and sometimes even know what we want to order. When I used to work in Philly and took the train, I’d order dinner sometimes on Friday nights from my cell phone and when I’d get off the train at Trevose, I could walk to Angela’s, pick up the food, and walk home. Their Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteaks and Sicilian pies are awesome.

  12)   Trevose Pizza and Trevose Beer, at the old ShopnBag center.

  13)  Carmen’s Place and Trevose Family Shoes, both located in what I call “downtown Trevose”. I’ve only been to Carmen’s twice, but it’s a cute little dive bar. I’ll most likely continue to visit Trevose Family Shoes, as we will still get Angie’s sneakers there.

  14)  I’ll more than likely continue to visit this area, period, as there are so many shops I prefer, and of course I want to come and visit the Hills and Pete.

   

  Some fond memories of this place:

   

  1)      the several drunken gatherings we’ve had here. At first it was the Wawa crew, then they quit and our other friends came, and keep coming over now. All great times, funny, sometimes a blur.

  2)      Standing outside towards the courtyard of the “E” building, smoking cigarettes and chatting about various things, like sports, weirdo neighbors, The Jerky Boys, work, life in general. We currently have a patio at our 2-bdrm we’ve been in the last 2 yrs, and don’t go over that way too much anymore, but when we were first here, we were in a 1-bdrm, and we’d chat with the neighbors quite frequently out there, sometimes beer in hand.

  3)      Catching the Knock-knock zoom-zoomers on Thanksgiving break ’07.

  4)      Setting off the E building fire alarm back in January ’09, quite by accident.

  5)      After Sarah’s Halloween bash back in ’06, coming back to our 1-bdrm, right before we moved to the 2-bdrm. We hung out that whole weekend, went to see SAW III. It was great.

  6)      New Years Eve 2006. It was a bisexual make-out fest. Three-way girl-on-girl. Guy-on-guy too. Yeah, it was pretty effed-up

  7)      St Pat’s Parties, both in 2007 and 2008. Drunken fun times.

  8)      Our patio. Lots of drunken smoke-filled conversations and heart-to-hearts held out there.

  9)      Trevose Train station. Granted I haven’t rode the train since October ’07, right before I transferred to Bucks County, but knowing that it’s only a block away after cutting through the one yard and crossing Brownsville Rd, is good. No driving required.

  10)   Halloween ’05. I was pregnant, so I couldn’t drink, but Matt and Anthony came over after work, and Matt was in a gorilla costume, drunk, beating his chest, convulsing on the floor – not really convulsing, pretending for effect. Actually, despite how nuts Matt would get when he drank, I missed those early days here, yelling at 5am outside, intoxicated to oblivion. At the time it was quite unnerving, but looking back on it, it was hilarious.

  11)  Bringing Angie home from the hospital

  12)  When we first moved here before we were married, before Angie was born, I enjoyed walking to Wawa and CVS, by myself. Going to the mall, looking for work, taking the bus home in the rain. One time I walked from Neshaminy. It’s only a 5 min drive, but a good hr walk, esp. in a suit in early July, four and a half months pregnant. But I enjoyed it.

  13)  Last winter, when were hung out at Pete’s for a hot minute, then came down here. Called Uncle Doctor, called Greg on Skype. Pete had a baggy on his head, and ate popcorn and brought down his video camera. It was hilarious. My glasses suffered collateral damage.
   

  What I am NOT going to miss about this place:

   

  1)      the parking situation. It blows. No assigned parking, people park half-ass, have cars that sit and just take up space, never move/use them. They make their own spots.

  2)      Always having to watch our volume, esp at night, so that we don’t piss off the neighbors. At our November Fools Halloween Extravaganza this past yr, we had the Geto Boys blaring from the stereo. I had a cardboard oven on my head, as I was supposed to be Sylvia Plath. I was dancing all gangsta to the Geto Boys with a box on my head(which btw Tara still has yet to put the footage from her phone on YouTube), only for the overgrown retards upstairs to stomp as hard as they could on their floor/our ceiling, to send us amessage, or to scare us I suppose.  When we moved directly downstairs from them, we told them, if we’re too loud, just call or knock, we’ll turn it down. We’re easy to get along with. And I’m not exaggerating about them being overgrown retards. They’re like 6’11 and mentally slow, to a degree. I think their mom lives in the bldg across the parking lot. She had like 12 kids altogether, and they’re all really tall (including herself – “that’s not a woman, it’s a man, babay!”) and most of her kids are mentally challenged. Kinda sad. I guess she kept trying ‘til she had some normal ones, but gave up after kid # 11.

  3)      The f*cking skunks. Seriously, there’s way too many, all the time, with the exception of winter. Can’t go out on the patio when it’s nice.

  4)      The f*cking bugs. Again, too many, esp. since we face a wooded area. Bees at 2am buzzing around, random dead roaches and locusts around. F*cking disgusting.

  5)      Not being able to recycle. They don’t have a program here. I want to try to save some space on this god-forsaken planet. And I want to set a good example for my kid.

  6)      Not being able to fully control the heat and a/c. The downside to not having to pay utilities. Seasonally, they centrally control it, and once it’s on, you can supposedly control the temp from your apt. But that’s a load of bs. Even with plastic tarps at the windows and the heat turned up as high as it can go in the winter – the warmest it gets in here is 70 on a good day. Usually in the 65 degree range. I hate waking up freezing, but I do it every morning.

  7)      Not having any room. Seriously, we’re not even packed at all yet, and we’ve been living around columns of boxes.

  8)      I think we have mice. Thankfully I never saw one, but one day I went to get candles from underneath the sink, b/c the lights kept dimming like we were gonna lose power. In the candles were mouse droppings. Creepy. Not a fan of rodents.

  9)      Not a fan of bats or dragonflies either. Summertime brings them in droves. Both swoop down so low, it gives me chills up my spine.

  10)  The fact that a couple of my neighbors are registered sex offenders. I think I was better off not knowing.

  11)  I don’t like how this area does not have sidewalks. You risk your life trying to walk down the street. Not safe nor child-friendly.

  12)  Having to battle the Bristol Rd ride every morning. I hate Bristol Rd. it’s too narrow. But I will miss laughing at the hippie flea market there at Old Lincoln Hwy. I won’t miss the traffic back-up it causes though. Nor will I miss the f*ckheads who turn the shoulder into a right-turning lane. I purposely get honked at for blocking it. Or if they squeeze by me, I lay on the horn until we start moving again. Bristol Road= major road rage issues for me.

   

   

  The house we’re moving to is closer to the mall, but very residential- the Neshaminy Valley area of Bensalem. Single Home, no parking issues whatsoever. 3 bdrms, 1 and ahalf baths, a garage, a family room, an attic, a separate little room. Good schools in the area. And sidewalks! 7-Eleven is a short little walk. No more Bristol Rd for me. Norm may have to go that way now, since I’ll be closer to my work,  but he’ll be further away from his work. But he leaves for work at 6:30 am, so it shouldn’t be too bad that time of morning.

   

  While I will miss this place, I will be so happy once we’re moved into a house and settled in. More space, some equity, and hopefully less aggravation. I’m sure it will be worth the 30-yr debt!

   

   

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