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This weekend, our family adopted a new family member. Meet Thor, our kitten. We thought he'd need a tough name to live with Aslan, our mean tabby. The rest of the pets are pretty laid back. The "rest of the pets" are two dogs and two cats. When I told Dad we adopted a kitten, he said (sarcas...
05/28/2007
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I'm having a problem.Lately, I've realized that I'm not happy with my website. It's a decent enough website for the price I pay (free) and I've done what I can with it. Eh.But I don't give it any attention. It's my red-headed step child.I love my blog. My blog is fun. My blog is fluid, chang...
05/25/2007
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What makes my house a home is the memories we've built over the years together. The snapshots in my mind when I think of "Home" look something like this:Looking impossibly young, shopping with my husband for our first home. Taking my parents along because we have no idea what we're doing.Walkin...
05/23/2007
For as long as I've been alive, Mayor Peak has been a constant in my hometown. He's a fixture of my town, an icon. And after 44 years as mayor, he's stepping down.Times have changed. When he first served, our city had about 1,300 people. We're at nearly 6,000 and growing! We had one stopligh...
05/23/2007
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Memes are going around again! "WooHoo" Sally Cheeseman hit me with one so now I have to come up with five (semi-interesting) little tidbits you might not have known about me. (If you missed hers, you can find it here.)These are SO HARD. But here I go!I just started blogging on Jeff Turner's Re...
05/21/2007
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Recently, my younger daughter Little One told me something she learned about in school.She'd read about a young girl who did a study on the birds she saw outside McDonald's. She noticed that they hung out in the parking lot picking up scraps. Her experiment was to see if they recognized brands....
05/20/2007
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Each week, I'm waited on by the same cashiers at the grocery store. A high school friend manages the local movie theater. My bank teller knows me and what I drive. The guy at the gas station picks up our conversation where we left off last time. (Yes, I go in to pay because it would be rude n...
05/18/2007
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Today my partner (Dad) and I went to a house to preview it for a listing presentation. The home is currently listed and their relocation company called us, the listing is expiring soon and they'd like to go in another direction. We spoke to the home owners and had a confirmed appointment to pre...
05/15/2007
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I'm reading "The Cluetrain Manifesto" right now. I'm enjoying the book, already a classic as it was printed way back in 2000. One thing that strikes me as funny is that the entire book is trying to sell me on blogging, but they didn't even have the word for it yet. It's like a creativity exerc...
05/14/2007
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Real Estate Shows has a nifty new upgrade, the ability to embed shows directly into your posts. The look is clean and modern, and it invites viewers to click and view your show. Look at the show below, offered in two ways. One is the embedded show, the other is a button linked to the show. Wh...
05/12/2007