As we sat eating our lunch at an area eatery, I was looking out the window into the parking lot. As I watched for nothing in particular, I saw a young child pacing up and down on a lot line. I wondered what her mother was doing and where she was. I soon determined that the mother was busily pu
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12/21/2011
It seems that every year time accelerates dramatically the closer we get to Christmas. I am not sure if it is because we try to squeeze too many activities into the allotted hours, or if the days being shorter crowd out reality... Whatever the cause the phenomena exists and adds to the stress fa
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12/20/2011
I'm always looking for things that make life simpler and better. Well this week I found Motion-X drive. You can get it at the iTunes store for .99 cents. Now of course if you want voice guidance it's another 9.99..... I've used it a couple of days now and all I can say is wow! It's far and a
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12/13/2011
One of the less appealing tasks we have to do as Real Estate Professionals is to tell sellers to clean up their acts!There is no effective way to market or sell a dirty property. None! For years I felt it was invasive and rude to tell people the cold hard truth about that. For years in fact I
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12/13/2011
A great stress reliever would be NOT putting things off until the last minute. Procrastination has been one oft least favorite character traits all my life!Today is the deadline for getting our Christmas lights set up for this Christmas Season. We started yesterday and literally ran out of dayl
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12/10/2011
We live in a subdivision that was once known as the "Christmas subdivision. " In days gone by, the HOA required that the residents decorate the exterior of their homes. This event was a highlight of the Christmas Season for many Houston residents.The traffic was horrid,but the over all effec
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12/09/2011
As an industry we fuel numerous other businesses in the pursuit of our daily goals.On occasion our work requires us to branch out into unknown territory. Today was such a day. We were in the southwest part of Houston when the overwhelming desire for some sustenance (Food). Lucky for us we spo
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12/09/2011
I just cleaned up the "new" kitchen! We have been working on it since Labor Day. It still needs a few finishing touches but the worst of the construction is finally over.Built in 1973, this house had not been updated at all. We bought it in 2007 with the plan to update it. Then life got in t
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12/08/2011
For the past few months since we decided we wanted to downsize, we have been working hard at sorting through and getting rid of possessions (stuff, junk and crap.) Some of these things have been part of our lives for years (just carrying it around and sometimes even looking at it.) As we get fu
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12/08/2011
Every once in a while we seem to have a desire for Chinese Food. In northwest Houston there is a place well worth the trip. They have good prices, great food and NO MSG. That to us is a dynamite combination!Lunch is a real bargain coming with soup, egg roll, a heathy portion of one of about 20
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12/08/2011
