There is always something fun to do in Sonoma, even when it's raining. And it rained pretty much all day yesterday. Which meant it was a perfect day to undertake a Sonoma wine country tour. We joined a group of 10 people. One coupled hailed from New York City, so they were struggling with the tim
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11/30/2014
My husband and I have a very equitable relationship in that we employ tradeoffs. Things the other person seems better at doing, we leave those things up to the person best equipped to deal with them. That is why I work with contractors for our home improvement projects and he does the grocery sho
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11/29/2014
How many meals on Thanksgiving can one person consume? I hope never to have to answer that question again because it is becoming apparent to me that the older we get, the less we can eat. Why, yes, my eyes are bigger than my stupid little head. And I could have very easily not walked by the desse
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11/28/2014
It's been a busy Thanksgiving so far yet some of us are still sleeping, I'm not saying which one of us that is but you can probably figure it's not the one who is typing or as Chris Ann calls it, keyboarding. My husband and I hired petsitters to stay at our house to take care of the cats so we co
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11/27/2014
You know what I hate? Having to interact with people who are forced to deal with the public in customer service positions. For one thing, dealing with the public all the time can make a person jaded because lots of people, unfortunately, aren't very nice. They can be jerks and self centered and a
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11/26/2014
Ever since we switched to the Breeze litter box system, dealing with our cat's boxes has been, well, pretty much a breeze. All of the cat litter tracking we had to clean up every single day has stopped. There is no lingering odor and obsessive scooping going on. The cats adjusted to the new syste
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11/25/2014
If you're on an Ingress Mission, you might need backup power. It's important to pay attention to your devices. Like every so often you have to pick up your keyboard and pound the dead skin and bread crumbs out of it. It's amazing what kind of crap falls out of your keyboard, and what's even more
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11/24/2014
I tromped in my winter boots through the back yard strewn with leaves and over the heaving sidewalk cracks to inspect a home. This is a very chilly time of year to walk around a property, but as licensed agents, a Sacramento REALTOR is required to do her visual inspection in connection with listi
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11/23/2014
I like to think of myself as a compassionate person who cares about other people, and I often find myself jumping into high gear when people are mistreated. One of the biggest abusers I see in my line of work are debt collection agencies. That's because I happen to sell a lot of short sales in Sa
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11/22/2014
I don't know about you, but this Sacramento REALTOR is thrilled that her reluctant participation in the MetroList iBox exchange is over. When we were hit with the news between our eyes, it was a bit of a shock to discover that not only were we hosed by having to exchange our lockboxes, not one fo
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11/21/2014
