Last Sunday, December 23, 2007, The Seattle Times had on the front page an interesting article on the economic outlook for 2008 in the Greater Seattle area and Washington State in general. The article; "Region likely to dodge economic doldrums" lists four economic points, and gives examples that
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12/28/2007
Ignore your scale for a few more days...because today and tomorrow are National Chocolate Day ! FYI, "More than 150 million chocolate Santa's will be made for the winter holiday season", and I got two of them in my stocking. One has already been enjoyed the other...soon.... Besides knowing that
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12/28/2007
Do you have a tacky or let's face it, a downright ugly Christmas Sweater lurking in your closet? Well, The Seattle Times held it's second annual Tackiest [Ugly] Christmas Sweater Contest this December and the winners were announced on Sunday. The article; "We're in Stitches" gives readers the
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12/25/2007
Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope that your day has been filled with lots of love, fun, yummy food and presents! Now that the storm of celebrating the day has calmed down a bit, I thought you might want to relax and enjoy a funny article by William Dietrich in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest
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12/25/2007
Yesterday evening a friend and I went in search of Christmas Lights in Seattle. This year we decided to follow KOMO TV's (channel 4) Parade of Lights suggestions for seeing spectacular Christmas Lights. The weather was great on this first full day of winter, the skies cleared from rain during t
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12/23/2007
Today I set aside to Bake and Blog. Tomorrow I am planning on dropping off loaves of Pumpkin Bread to some current clients, so today I am staying home to bake up a couple of batches. They take a long time to bake, so it's perfect for sitting at my computer and blogging. I am not going to visit
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12/21/2007
I went to Ballard the other day to hunt down some unique items for Christmas stocking stuffers...because there is no better place to find the weird, the unusual, and wacky "popular culture" items than at Archie McPhee! This holdout for the wacky and wonderful is celebrating it's 25th year makin
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12/21/2007
Relocating to Seattle? I moved to Seattle in the fall of 1994, without any real reason beyond just wanting to live in Seattle. A few months before my actual move, I was in a bookstore and found a book called "Seattle Survival Guide II" This was a great resource (remember, this was pre-intern
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12/15/2007
I am so happy to have Christi Meats with Evergreen Home Loans joining ActiveRain! Christi has been my preferred lender for a while now and has provided my (our) clients with wonderful service. When I first met Christi she told me she attended most of her closings, which as a newer agent back the
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12/13/2007
Seattle is known more for it's drizzly, and rainy days especially in winter. But this year we got a Christmas Season surprise with a day of snow flurries on December 1st and in the middle of a Saturday afternoon of Christmas shopping. Since I was not holding an Open House at one of my listings,
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12/04/2007
