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Confession Is Good For The Soul... Or "Thank You Kevin It's Time I Came Clean"

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Real Estate Agent with I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group

Hi All,

As you all know blogging is all about transparency and in view of that fact Kevin Tomlinson outed me I think I need to be totally honest with you all about who I am and what I'm up to...

I am not the girl I appear to be.  For starters, the long, dark red hair... A total fraud.  I actually have long silky blonde locks that cascade like a waterfall down my back and over my shoulders. 

The fair skin and freckles?  Photoshop.  My natural skin tone is well, much more unique.  Anyone seen Wicked?  Let's just say that Elphaba and I could be twins.  

The glasses are merely a prop.  OK, so I can't read, write, drive or even walk without wearing them, but its not like they are necessary.  The blue eyes?  Well, you got me... they really are that color.  Sorry. 

You have no idea how much effort goes into creating the facade each day.  When I wake up each morning I could give Kevin a run for his money in the looks department.  Why just getting that extra fifteen pounds to settle about my hips "just so" takes work.  And I don't even want to discuss what I go through to shrink myself down from 5'11" to 5'4". 

As for my writing style.  Another fabrication.  I don't really write this way.  My writing is never printed so neatly, spaced so well or so easy to read. 

And let's talk for a moment about my personality and my personal values.  Sure I come across as someone who is fun, funny, bright, cheerful and caring but that is just a front.  Don't let that fool you.  I carefully hide the real me behind that carefully crafted wall so that no one peeks behind the curtain and sees that what I really am is caring, cheerful, bright, funny and fun. 

Oh and that personal values thing?  Don't buy it for a minute.  Alright, so I donate platelets to the City of Hope as regularly as I can so what (That'll show 'um.  I'll go down there and give those cancer patients another tool to fight with.  If I'm not checking out early then by golly, neither are they.  Not if I can help it!).

Oh and that PriusI drive?  Well don't go getting the idea that I care about the environment or anything like that.  I only got it because of a coin toss - heads I get a Prius, tails I get Hummer.  OK, so it landed tails up, but no stupid coin is going to tell ME what to do (see, I told you I was a rebel)!  And the "Save A Soldier - Buy A Hybrid" decal on the back window?  Well I wanted something "special" and they were all out of "Nuke Unborn Baby Gay Whales For Jesus" so...

My family life is totally bogus as well.  I married My Mel because he was the first and only guy I ever fell in love with.  And because I think he's the sweetest, smartest, cutest, kindest and funniest person I know and he loves me too, but that's the ONLY reason. 

As for my two Sub-sonsScott and Brian.  I made them up.  They don't really exist, but don't tell anyone because the U.S. Army is pretty sure that Scott is a Sargeant who came back from serving in Iraq in November. "Scott" married a lovely girl named Valerie (who has a beautiful little daughter named Alyssa) and they are about to become the parent's of their first baby, also a little girl, due in September - they found out the sex today... Umm, I mean, I just made up the sex today... yeah, that's it. 

As for "Brian", I decided that it would be better for my image if I had a nineteen year old, talented writer, artist and musician who lives with us, works for Starbucks, is attending college and going into Aeronautics, hopefully to become a commercial pilot someday.  I also decided that I would act like I was proud of him - what the heck, in for a penny, in for a pound, right?

Last but not least, there is no Route66Living.com.  Never was and never will be.  There is also no Drew Meyers, no Zillow, No ARDELL, No Project Blogger and No Active Rain.  There is however a Santa Claus

OK... I must say, I do feel a whole lot better.  Kevin was right, confession is good for the soul!

Take care all, help lots of people and have a wonderful day... No, wait, scratch that... Have a wonderful week!

Tisza

ARDELL DellaLoggia
Better Properties Seattle - Kirkland, WA
I keep coming back to see if you fixed that first link to where Kevin "outed" you.
Jun 12, 2007 06:34 PM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi All,

Mary - Hug early and hug often!  They may squirm but there will come a day all too soon when they will wish they could get just one more hug and a sloppy kiss as well :-)

Mary - I am glad you have enjoyed this.  I have too.

ARDELL - All better.  That is what happens when you are posting at 4 AM :-)  Thanks for letting me know.

Take care all, help lots of people and have a wonderful day!

Tisza

Jun 13, 2007 04:01 PM
Kelly Kilpatrick
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Broker-Associate
I'm always a day late. Tisza, I loved this one. I had missed Kevin's previous post and was glad you fixed the link before I got to it. You all have been having entirely too much fun while I've been out and about with clients.  They just don't seem to want to wait until the end of Project Blogger. Glad to see the true you.
Jun 13, 2007 07:42 PM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi Kelly,

And I am glad to see the true you as well... Hard working, friendly, funny and smart.

Take care,

Tisza-who-is-still-hoping-that-you-can-go-to-Inman :-)

Jun 13, 2007 07:57 PM
Lori Hakeem Oxley
Charles Rutenberg Realty, Inc. - Tampa, FL
How funny!!!  Love the long blonde flowing hair...I'm really blonde, too. ;)
Jun 14, 2007 04:22 AM
ARDELL DellaLoggia
Better Properties Seattle - Kirkland, WA
Thanks for fixing the link!  Not that I mind coming back to check a skazillion times...:)
Jun 14, 2007 04:39 AM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi All,

Lori - Yes, I love it too, and I knew you were as well.  Its such a shame that I have to put a temporary rinse on it every morning so that it's golden gloriousness does not distract others :-)

ARDELL - Blogging and bedtime really don't mix well, do they?  Sorry for the broken link.  I have now learned that after I post, I need to go and check to make sure that everything I put in works like I want it too.  Thanks for yet another lesson in the wonderful world of blogging :-)

Take care,

Tisza

Jun 14, 2007 06:23 AM
Michelle Ewing
Trademark Realtors - Riverside, CA
Riverside, CA
Excellent writing.  This is the best post I've read all day.  And I . . . . am not overweight.
Jun 14, 2007 05:12 PM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi Michelle,

Thank you, I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed it.  Oh, and what an amazing coincidence... I am not overweight either!

Take care, help lots of people and have a wonderful day!

Tisza

Jun 14, 2007 05:27 PM
Kevin Tomlinson
One Sotheby's International Realty- Miami Beach Real Estate - Miami Beach, FL
Miami Beach Real Estate

The b*tch is dangerous.  I told you guys. She scares Omarosa.  She drives a gas-guzzling Porsche Cayenne Turbo, always talks on her PINK razor cell while simultaneously applying lots of lip gloss (pink sugar).  She flips people off AFTER she cuts them off and makes left turns from the right hand lane.

She complains about everything and will chew out the waitstaff at a restaurant for not including the 'free' lemon with her tap water.  She, of course, orders bottled water when a man is picking up the tab.

Thats Tisza and you have to love her for who she really is.

Jun 17, 2007 04:24 PM
Kevin Tomlinson
One Sotheby's International Realty- Miami Beach Real Estate - Miami Beach, FL
Miami Beach Real Estate

Mary...

Those god-d*amned ghosts just won't leave me alone!  What's with the friggin ghosts!

Jun 17, 2007 04:26 PM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi All,

Kevin, I don't just scare Omarosa I terrify her.  As for that pink razor, I don't have just one I have an entire collection of them (I only use one until the keypad gets dusty and then I chuck it in the bin and unwrap another).  I tend to favor MAC's Viva Glam, usually applied with a palette knife far outside my lipline.  If I can get the lipstick to start just below my nose and end just above my chin I think that's about right.  What's the point of wearing makeup if people can't tell you are, right?

I don't bother flipping people of, I just had a giant middle finger built and permanently attached to the roof of my car.  I think it gets the message across nicely.  And I don't see any problem with turning left from the right hand lane, after all I pay my taxes, I can use those roads any way I want to, I'm entitled.

And that lemon is supposed to be free gosh darn it.  I'm not asking for any special treatment.  I just want them to give me 16 lemon slices, a bit of cheese cloth, and a quarter of a cup of sugar I'll do the rest.  And I also don't see anything wrong with having some guy pay for things.  My company is worth cases of Pelligrino loaded into the back of my car please add a couple of bottles of Cristal, some Napoleon Brandy 60 to 80 years old minimum.  So what if I don't drink, that's not the point. 

I'm glad you helped me to further unburden myself.  I feel so deliciously light and free.

Take care,

Tisza.

Jun 17, 2007 05:20 PM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley
Kevin only 5% of my posts on Live in Los Gatos are on ghosts (yes, I counted: 7 of 119 posts = 5.8%). But those are the ones everyone talks about. Maybe I should do more? <g>
Jun 18, 2007 03:15 AM
Kevin Tomlinson
One Sotheby's International Realty- Miami Beach Real Estate - Miami Beach, FL
Miami Beach Real Estate

7 posts on Ghosts...oh jeez...worse than I thought!  LOL

Jun 18, 2007 05:18 AM
Kevin Tomlinson
One Sotheby's International Realty- Miami Beach Real Estate - Miami Beach, FL
Miami Beach Real Estate


Tisza

When someone does a manuever from the right lane I try to stop them or scream "let me see your title to the road" and they go "What?" and I say...You must OWN the road because you are driving like it!

Jun 18, 2007 05:20 AM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley
Seven is bad? I'm just warming up!!  Someday I want to write a book (yes, really).

There are a lot of cool people with cool stories along these lines. At the Long Beach AR party, I had a great long talk with Tisza and especially "her Mel" about this stuff. Fun fun fun.
Jun 18, 2007 05:21 AM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi All,

Kevin - Well now that you mention it... I do own the road (and I am sure it will be a great investment property that should pay off big in the future :-)

Mary - As you know, My Mel has an abiding interest in all things spectral.  Let me know when you want to start that book.  Perhaps we should work together :-)

Take care,

Tisza

Jun 18, 2007 05:26 AM
Jeff Turner
RealSatisfied - Santa Clarita, CA
Flippin' hilarious!
Jun 18, 2007 11:36 AM
Joeann Fossland
Advantage Solutions Group - Tucson, AZ
Master Certified Coach to Motivated Agents

Methinks this Blogging Project has lasted too long and you guys have LOST IT!!!!!!!

But, actually this is hysterical. And, I like ghost stories.....But I prefer having angels

Jun 18, 2007 11:49 AM
Tisza Major-Posner
I.V.P.G. - Inland Valley Professional Group - Claremont, CA
DRE#01784679

Hi All,

Jeff - Flippin' thanks :-)

Joeann - Methinks you might be right... but then I know that I lost it long ago and since life is funnier this way I have done nothing to go and find it :-)  Glad you have enjoyed it, oh and with regard to ghosts I am not entirely convinced that they aren't angels...

Take care all, help lots of people and have a wonderful day!

Tisza

Jun 18, 2007 07:32 PM