Happy Halloween!!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
One night stand with Willie Nelson
I mean, one nightstand with Willie Nelson! Grammar and spelling can make all the difference in the world. I'm going to keep this post short because I'm setting out tomorrow to write a novel in the month of November. I'm not kidding. www.nanowrimo.org
Happy Halloween!!
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Happy Halloween!!
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy
A couple of days ago I said I was pleased that my cousin had gone with my mother on her trip to Washington, DC for the Marine Corps Marathon. It is always more fun to travel with a good companion, but it turned out to be especially nice for my mother since Frankenstorm was bearing down on the eastern seaboard while they were there.
I've spoken with my mom and exchanged texts with my cousin. In spite of the very heavy rains and high wind they are safe and well provided for. Would I prefer that they be cozy and warm in their own homes? Of course! Am I grateful that they are safe where they are? Unbelievably so!
This has been quite an adventure for Mom, with or without the hurricane! She signed up for last years' event almost as a fluke. It is VERY difficult to get in because it sells out so quickly. And in spite of the fact that she was encountering problems with her very slow Internet connection, she got her entry and started training.
And then one morning while walking my brother's dog, she stepped off a curb and broke her ankle. She's a tough old gal, though, so she walked on it for two weeks before seeing a doctor. I swear nurses and doctors make the worst patients! The ankle took too long to heal so she had to defer her race entry until this year.
So she's been training like a champ...while working...while helping my sister while my niece had her brain tumor removed...while anxiously awaiting the arrival of my handsome new nephew.
The thing about the MCM is that they have strict time limits. For the safety of the runners and volunteers they have to cut people off who aren't making it to specific checkpoints in a certain amount of time. She made it to the 17 mile marker and was cut off. She is, of course, very disappointed that she was unable to finish because she felt great. (So great, in fact, that my cousin sent me a picture the following day of Mom on the treadmill.)
Mom is funny. She said this was going to be her last marathon. Her last "hoo rah" as it were. But a few short hours after she was cut off she tells me it is a must do event. She says it just so inspirational that the organizers and volunteers are all Marines and they cheer you on the entire time. In one breath she is saying that it is her last marathon...in her next she is saying how she will do it differently next time. At 72 Hurricane Sandy and a 26.2 mile run can't keep her down. I guess at 46 I have no reason not to run another marathon.
Any reader recommendations for which one I should run?!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
I've spoken with my mom and exchanged texts with my cousin. In spite of the very heavy rains and high wind they are safe and well provided for. Would I prefer that they be cozy and warm in their own homes? Of course! Am I grateful that they are safe where they are? Unbelievably so!
This has been quite an adventure for Mom, with or without the hurricane! She signed up for last years' event almost as a fluke. It is VERY difficult to get in because it sells out so quickly. And in spite of the fact that she was encountering problems with her very slow Internet connection, she got her entry and started training.
And then one morning while walking my brother's dog, she stepped off a curb and broke her ankle. She's a tough old gal, though, so she walked on it for two weeks before seeing a doctor. I swear nurses and doctors make the worst patients! The ankle took too long to heal so she had to defer her race entry until this year.
So she's been training like a champ...while working...while helping my sister while my niece had her brain tumor removed...while anxiously awaiting the arrival of my handsome new nephew.
The thing about the MCM is that they have strict time limits. For the safety of the runners and volunteers they have to cut people off who aren't making it to specific checkpoints in a certain amount of time. She made it to the 17 mile marker and was cut off. She is, of course, very disappointed that she was unable to finish because she felt great. (So great, in fact, that my cousin sent me a picture the following day of Mom on the treadmill.)
Mom is funny. She said this was going to be her last marathon. Her last "hoo rah" as it were. But a few short hours after she was cut off she tells me it is a must do event. She says it just so inspirational that the organizers and volunteers are all Marines and they cheer you on the entire time. In one breath she is saying that it is her last marathon...in her next she is saying how she will do it differently next time. At 72 Hurricane Sandy and a 26.2 mile run can't keep her down. I guess at 46 I have no reason not to run another marathon.
Any reader recommendations for which one I should run?!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Drag someone along
Friday evening I didn't know which was making me more nervous...the fact that my 72 year old mother was going to be running the Marine Corps Marathon Sunday or that I had just a few days of sanity before I jump in to the November National Novel Writing Month challenge.
And then I got a text message from my cousin Devera. She and my mom were finishing dinner at Union Station and have a good time. Knowing that my dear mother wasn't in a large, unfamiliar city by herself about to undertake a grueling physical effort with no support crew lifted a huge weight off my shoulders.
I was having wine, veggies, cheese and crackers with my neighbor Vykki and we'd been talking about, well, everything, because we're girls and hadn't seen each other in at least four whole days! NaNoWriMo came up in conversation...oddly as a tangent to a conversation about Halloween costumes. I was dressing up as a one night stand...I mean as one nightstand!...and needed a Harlequin-style bodice ripper. And when you talk about bodice rippers it is natural to talk about how simple it would be to write one. Ha! How we kid ourselves!
And because "a trouble shared is a trouble halved" I suckered Vykki into doing NaNoWriMo with me! We've asked some of our loved ones to submit opening lines, we'll pick one, and then both start our novel adventure with the same line. It should be interesting to see where the two stories end up! Let me know if you'd like to join us! Or if you have a great idea for an opening line!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
And then I got a text message from my cousin Devera. She and my mom were finishing dinner at Union Station and have a good time. Knowing that my dear mother wasn't in a large, unfamiliar city by herself about to undertake a grueling physical effort with no support crew lifted a huge weight off my shoulders.
Awesome mom before the Marine Corps Marathon.
I was having wine, veggies, cheese and crackers with my neighbor Vykki and we'd been talking about, well, everything, because we're girls and hadn't seen each other in at least four whole days! NaNoWriMo came up in conversation...oddly as a tangent to a conversation about Halloween costumes. I was dressing up as a one night stand...I mean as one nightstand!...and needed a Harlequin-style bodice ripper. And when you talk about bodice rippers it is natural to talk about how simple it would be to write one. Ha! How we kid ourselves!
And because "a trouble shared is a trouble halved" I suckered Vykki into doing NaNoWriMo with me! We've asked some of our loved ones to submit opening lines, we'll pick one, and then both start our novel adventure with the same line. It should be interesting to see where the two stories end up! Let me know if you'd like to join us! Or if you have a great idea for an opening line!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
Thursday, October 25, 2012
KW Tacos
I have a lot of reasons to love my job at Keller Williams Group One Sparks - great clients, great agents, great brokers, great staff, and - this may come as a surprise - great food!
The folks I work with a wonderful cooks and someone is always bringing something delicious to share. We have luncheons and cookoffs and the variety is vast and tasty. Today we had a taco feed. Everyone signed up to bring various ingredients and then paid $5 per person with proceeds going to KW Cares - a public charity created to support Keller Williams Realty associates and their families with hardship as a result of a sudden emergency. Whether it be a single individual or an entire community such as those affected by the Colorado wildfires or the Missouri tornado KW Cares works to help their own.
At lunch today the chicken, beef, and pork tacos warmed our tummies; the companionship and support of a good cause warmed our hearts. Thank you Keller Williams for all you do to support your agents!
The aftermath:
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The folks I work with a wonderful cooks and someone is always bringing something delicious to share. We have luncheons and cookoffs and the variety is vast and tasty. Today we had a taco feed. Everyone signed up to bring various ingredients and then paid $5 per person with proceeds going to KW Cares - a public charity created to support Keller Williams Realty associates and their families with hardship as a result of a sudden emergency. Whether it be a single individual or an entire community such as those affected by the Colorado wildfires or the Missouri tornado KW Cares works to help their own.
At lunch today the chicken, beef, and pork tacos warmed our tummies; the companionship and support of a good cause warmed our hearts. Thank you Keller Williams for all you do to support your agents!
The aftermath:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Running In the Night
Running in the Night isn't just a song by Lionel Richie it is something I do when the days get shorter and shorter. I prefer not to and will do it only rarely by myself. I've got the treadmill and don't mind putting in the miles on that. But my husband hates it and so out the door we go with headlamps and reflective gear.
Last night as we prepared to do our 5.8 mile route he asked me how fast I'd do it. When I gave him my prediction he said, "You do realize, don't you, that that is 2 minutes faster than you did it a couple of days ago?" I said, "Yes, I realize it, but I'm fast in the cold and dark." He thought that was kind of funny but it is true. To a certain degree it is easier for me to run in the cool air because I don't love running in the heat and there are fewer pollens to interfere with my breathing. And when I'm running a little scared (yes, I'm still afraid of the dark) I go faster.
I tried to temper my goal and said, "Okay, I'll be one minute faster." I was one minute faster at the turn and almost always run a negative split on that course. And I did. I was two minutes and seventeen seconds faster than my previous run.
I take a small life lesson from this experience: Performing outside your comfort zone can often produce your best results.
Please feel free to share your comments about situations where you've also found that to be the case. I'd love to hear from you!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
Last night as we prepared to do our 5.8 mile route he asked me how fast I'd do it. When I gave him my prediction he said, "You do realize, don't you, that that is 2 minutes faster than you did it a couple of days ago?" I said, "Yes, I realize it, but I'm fast in the cold and dark." He thought that was kind of funny but it is true. To a certain degree it is easier for me to run in the cool air because I don't love running in the heat and there are fewer pollens to interfere with my breathing. And when I'm running a little scared (yes, I'm still afraid of the dark) I go faster.
I tried to temper my goal and said, "Okay, I'll be one minute faster." I was one minute faster at the turn and almost always run a negative split on that course. And I did. I was two minutes and seventeen seconds faster than my previous run.
I take a small life lesson from this experience: Performing outside your comfort zone can often produce your best results.
Please feel free to share your comments about situations where you've also found that to be the case. I'd love to hear from you!
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
Market Report
I'm exhausted! I've been showing houses to three different families, working with a seller on an offer on their property, covering for an agent that is out of the office on her honeymoon (congratulations Melissa!), working on a food drive, and cheering like a madwoman for the SF Giants! So far everything is going fairly smoothly...but it all takes energy. And just when I think I can take a break I look at my calendar and realize I'm scheduled to run 5.8 miles tonight.
So rather than ramble on and on about all of that I thought I'd share some market information I got from my account executive at First Centennial Title. There are so many great people that pull together to make a real estate transaction happen and the folks at FCT are some of the best! Thank you Kris for this excellent information!
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So rather than ramble on and on about all of that I thought I'd share some market information I got from my account executive at First Centennial Title. There are so many great people that pull together to make a real estate transaction happen and the folks at FCT are some of the best! Thank you Kris for this excellent information!
Monday, October 22, 2012
Rain in Reno
It rained here today. It was just for a short while but it was enough to convince me that autumn has officially arrived. I'm pretty sure it is my friend Sarah's fault. She and her family arrived on Wednesday last week and left on Sunday morning. The entire time she was here she reveled in the blue skies and warm weather that we were experiencing. Since she is from Seattle, Washington she's had her fill of gray, rainy, chilly weather.
Several hours after we dropped them at the airport we found a pair of sunglasses that belonged to Sarah or Damon. I sent her a message about them and she said that I might as well hang on to them since they sure don't have any sunshine.
The great Reno weather is a draw for a lot of people. But my friends were here because their adorable and brilliant son was interviewing with the Davidson Academy. This school for profoundly gifted students is housed at the University of Nevada Reno. I'd heard of the Academy previously, but I learned so much more about it after visiting with my friends about their experience that I couldn't begin to adequately describe it. It addresses the academic, emotional, physical, and social needs of these phenomenally bright children. The requirements to get in are very strict and the school is not for everyone...but it is so wonderful to know that this great city has such an amazing offering.
So while Sarah may have left me with some gray skies and rain, she also left me with the warm memories of time spent with good friends and information about a school that, for those who qualify, is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If you think you know of a child that could benefit from this program, give me a call and I'll share with you what I know.
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
Several hours after we dropped them at the airport we found a pair of sunglasses that belonged to Sarah or Damon. I sent her a message about them and she said that I might as well hang on to them since they sure don't have any sunshine.
The great Reno weather is a draw for a lot of people. But my friends were here because their adorable and brilliant son was interviewing with the Davidson Academy. This school for profoundly gifted students is housed at the University of Nevada Reno. I'd heard of the Academy previously, but I learned so much more about it after visiting with my friends about their experience that I couldn't begin to adequately describe it. It addresses the academic, emotional, physical, and social needs of these phenomenally bright children. The requirements to get in are very strict and the school is not for everyone...but it is so wonderful to know that this great city has such an amazing offering.
So while Sarah may have left me with some gray skies and rain, she also left me with the warm memories of time spent with good friends and information about a school that, for those who qualify, is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If you think you know of a child that could benefit from this program, give me a call and I'll share with you what I know.
www.jerianne.rnohomes.com
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