Tax Free Weekend is coming up! This year, it is August 15-17 as school is about to start. This is a great weekend. I don't like to shop, and I really don't like shopping at peak times when so many others are shopping. However, I take exception to this weekend. Even though you only save 8.25%,
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07/31/2008
Building a new house is hard. You go to the builder, you see they are offering about 15 different floorplans, but they only have 2 or 3 model homes to show you. Ok, how do you see those other 12-13 floorplans? You then ask the builder if they have any inventory homes that you can walk. Ok, the
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07/31/2008
How great is your life? Do you ever wonder how you stack up to others in your level of happiness? Since people liked the grammar quiz yesterday, I found this quiz and thought it would be interesting to see how others score. I didn't actually score very high. I think the item that brought me do
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07/31/2008
I can't believe it, but it's true... I've posted 500 blogs! This makes 501! When I first started blogging, I didn't quite know what to say. I knew I had a lot to say, but wasn't sure others cared about what I had to say, so I stuck to only factual, business related topics. As I got more comfor
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07/30/2008
Since we've been contemplating the move to Austin, it's given me an opportunity to see how other parts of the state, possibly even the country, do things. One of those things is the Fence around a property. This might not seem like a big deal, but in all actuality it is a fairly big deal as it'
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07/30/2008
Can you see the image? Can you see her spinning? Which way is she spinning? Is she spinning clockwise? If so, you are using your right brain. Is she spinning counter clockwise? If so, you are using your left brain. Stare at her for a couple of minutes. See if she'll change her direction. I c
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07/28/2008
Man, I absolutely HATE wallpaper, and I hate wallpaper borders even more. And that made it very ironic that I found myself having to pick out new wallpaper border for our kitchen. My husband LOVES the current wallpaper because it looks like a faux finish. We have such an open floorplan that he
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07/25/2008
I was searching through the MLS today trying to find a house for a relocation person. Our houses are mostly brick and after a couple of minutes of scrolling through listings, they always all seem to look the same... until one grabs your attention. Granted, this is not "good" attention per se, bu
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07/22/2008
Many suburbs of Dallas, TX made CNN Money's top 100 places to live list for 2008. What I find interesting is that 10 cities in the Dallas area made the list, but only 1 city from the Austin area made the list, Round Rock. Of those 10 cities, I have to admit, I'm shocked by a couple of the citie
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07/22/2008
My community, Woods of SpringCreek in Richardson, TX finally received the turnabout they've been talking about for years. Telecom was a dead-end street, but it was never finished off because the plans were to make it a through street. With enough support from the homeowners, we convinced the Ci
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07/21/2008
