short sale????!!!!

So i figured out today WHY excatly they call short sales, short sales....and it has NOTHING to do with the timeframe at all! They call it a short sale because A) Pain in the ass was taken and B) because everyone involved is short on sanity by the time everything is said and done!
Ok lets rewind a second shall we, im working with a client that put in an offer on a house that is going short sale, they put in this offer on October 14th......it is now December 4th and we won't get the green light until next week.....sort on sanity are my clients? Just a tad!! But the good news is we WILL be getting the green light next week....im so excited i could dance on the rooftop, and my clients share the same excitement with me! The fact that is deal will be moving in a forward direction soon is really making life alot easier to deal with right now!


Things are aerie are going positive as well, after a rough few weeks things are getting straightened out and i feel alot better about my position there and the key role i play. This brings me great pleasure because i do enjoy my work, i enjoy the company and i enjoy the contrubution i can make to my family. So two thumbs up to the hard working team at my store.
Now some random pics for your viewing pleasure!

Work work work......

Our furnace broke tuesday, ya know because being sick wasn't enough! So anyways to pay for that $700 repair (and the $340 dryer that broke the week before) Jeremy will be doing stock at either AE or aerie saturday mornings until we can get that paid off. Me picking up a weekend shift at aerie would have serously hurt my sanity level because i don't get to see my kids enough as it is right now, so Jeremy took one for the team and said he would work in the stock room. He will be in aerie's stockroom until the middle of Januray, and then after that i may have to see what i can arrange with AE because hopefully by then our full time stock peoson won't be coughing a lung and half on her deathbed!

In other news i'm still on the fence about aerie this week.....i LOVE it there, and i LOVE most the people, but i'm wondering if i'm too old for it (OMG did i JUST say that!!!). Serously though everyone i work with is in their early 20's.....and i'm getting way too close to 30 for my comfort level! Part of working with teens and 20somethings is that they act like teens and 20somethings......and i just don't know how much of it i am gonna be able to handle long term. I forgot that not everyone goes to their job, does their job to the best of their ability and then went home.......NOPE not like that inthe retail world, people play favorites, they listen and don't listen, and then there comes the whole working with ALL girls......girls will be girls and let me tell you i'm waiting for the day it gets UGLY! We also have a high turn around and it's frustrating to see the same people you trained last week quit in a month because they don't like it!!! So it will be interesting to see where i find a nitch within the AE company as a whole.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILES!!!! I'm off to find a bag to put his present in.....because i'm all out of boy wrapping paper!

I hate being sick....

I had to actuallybreak down today and go to the doctors. I HATE being sick but now im getting sicker and i've been having allergy problems that i have been letting go for too long. Jeremy being the wonderful and loving husband that he is took my sick tushie to the doc, and the stayed home the rest of the day so i could get some rest. Im feeling a little better now but i still can't breathe very well and im worried the children will eat me alive tomorrow.
In other news Natalie is walking now. She has been for a month or so but man she can really go now. She follows Emma around everywhere she goes and even has a few hiding spots i see her go into when she wants to be left alone. Poor Emma this means no more carrying Natalie around (and no more heart attacks for mommy!) and she can't just leave the room to get away from sharing. Natalie is also in LOVE with babydolls. She ALWAYS has to be carrying them around, so its a good thing that Aunt Becky got the twin pack for x-mas 2 years ago.
Tomorrow is Jeremy's birthday and im gonna hopefully have enough energy to make him a cake. He is at the store now getting eggs and i hope i have cake mix......if not i will be buying a cake and telling him i made it myself!



Emma all ready to party it up!


Natalie being silly as usual!

The girls on Halloween! Natalie was a little sick so the I heart mommy shirt was in order!

its that time again!

Well it's time for another monthly update. Jeremy has been busy with work (as usual) and will hopefully be switching projects soon so we will be less busy with work. He was gone last week for work so i wasn't able to work at aerie at all, and let me tell you i had some serous withdraw! I even went shopping at the mall twice last week so i could see some of my aerie friends and of course buy gymboree (did you redeem your gymbucks yet?!). This week i am back to the aerie grindstone, and hopefully picking up a new listing this week as well. Yippie for real estate work, it always seems to come when i couldn't possible be any busier with my life, but it puts money in my savings account, and i of course LOVE real estate so i'm never gonna complain about it (much).

Natalie is walking now. Alot. And it's kinda weird to watch because she is supose to be my baby, forever since we arn't having anymore. SO i guess my baby is officially a toddler now, and it's kinda weird. Emma really likes school. Her newest thing is she wants pierced ears because i have been wearing earlings more latley. I tried to explain to her that it hurts for a second when they pierce them but she didn't seem phased too much by it. If she still wants them after x-mas i may get them done for her birthday. That's a good 4th birthday present right?

Well there is this month's mini update. I'm sicker than a dog so im going to take a nap them go to work.

Another Update

So i have another mini update. Emma started pre-school yesterday!!! I had just come to terms with the fact that i was not going to be able to get her into the program i wanted and i would just school her at home for a year, when i got the phone call that there was an open spot for her! Yippie thank you lord for helping me in my time of need! So anyways she was all excited to go to schho with her new backpack and tinkerbell lunch pail....that is until she realized that Daddy was not staying with her and then she kinda freaked, but the teacher promised me that she only complained for a couple seconds and then played with the other kids. So of course she was soo excited to see mommy and Natalie there to pick her up, and said goodbye to her news friends and came home with us. She only goes every other day so we shall see how tomorrow goes.

In other news i am not a full blown agent!!! I graduated from training a few weeks ago and i'm happy to report i now have my very own deck, and chair (hahaha to my boss) and dont have to stress about getting a listing anymore! Don't get me wrong if you call me up and ask me to list your house i'll do it and be happy about the business, but if i'm gonna have to go out and find brand new clients that were not refered to me i'm going to look for buyers, because it is a buyers market, and at the end of the day if a buyer is gonna buy they will buy something....a seller on the other hand is more likley to back out of selling their house (especally in this market) and them im left with nothing and out money. So bring on the referals guys.....if you refer me a client and i do business with them then you get a gift too!

So that be it for now, check back often and leave me lots of feedback via comments so i will post often! Thanks guys!

I'm BACK!

Long time no chat. Much has changed in the last year....mostly in the last couple months and i am happy to report the changes. First off i am no longer working full time. I took Emma out of daycare this week and i'm now working from home with a limited clientbase so i can give my kids the mommy time they need. There is a long drawn out story about why i took Emma out of daycare, but i will not get into it now. If anyone wants to know who NOT to hire to watch their kids feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail. Secondly i am now working a night job at the mall. I've been with American Eagle since 2001 and i'm happy to report i am now working nights at their women's store aerie. That's right, ya need a bra and undies then i'm your lady....come on in and buy some stuff! We have more than just bra's and undies, but that's what we are known for.

I am still taking on real estate clients so if you know someone who needs an agent send me an e-mail.....i am never too busy for your refferals!

Turkey Day

So how was everyone else's Thanksgiving? Mine was pretty good actually! My inlaws didn't drive me totally insane, i had some good food, and my Aunt's husband made a total ass of himself.....yet again!

So here was our day in a nutshell. We woke up way too early to get everyone showered/bathed, dressed, hair combed and pulled back, teeth brushed, diaper bags packed and overnight bag for Emma (who stayed with my mom) and we headed out the door. First stop on the list.....the inlaws (whom my oldest daughter refers to as grandma and grandpa coocoo....their doing not mine!). So on the way to my inlaws we stopped at the liquor store for a (big) bottle of white wine. My inlaws don't drink so i knew i would need this later on in the day at my mom's house. We arrive at the inlaws, my husband does what he always does, runs to another part of the house to work on a project (this time it was fixing their computer) and leaves me to socialize with my inlaws, and to watch both kids. and yes i have to watch Emma because my inlaws would let them climb the walls and get into everything imaginable.....because it drives me insane (ok so that's not their REAL reason, but i'm sure the fact that it drives me insane that they give her whatever she wants, and let her do whatever she wants is an added bonus to them....just like it's an aded bonus to me that she calls them coocoo!). So luckly we got there and it was almost time for lunch/dinner whatever you want to call the huge bird that we ate. Jeremy goes to get his grandma for her house down the street, again leaving me to still deal with two kids....luckly my MIL wasn't trying to pump her full of sugar like she aways does. So Grandma Lattimer arrives and it's turkey time, and non a moment too soon because i was STARVING! So this trip to inlaw land was fairly uneventful, kids eat, play, i bug my SIL and BIL to have a baby already, we take some pics, and pack back into the car to stop #2.

The next stop is my mom's house, which is where we spent most of thanksgiving. So we arrive at my mom's house.....except my aunt's car is not there. I am confused because when i called my mom earlier she says that they are already in town and at my grandparent's appartment. So we walk inside and my aunt, cousin and grandparents are there.....but no Mike. What happened?! is the first thing i ask. "Nothing" is the answer i get. "No serously" i say. Serously nothing happened....Mike didn't even come inside. So where the hell is he then?????? So here is what happened. Earlier in the week it snowed so my mom decided to clean out 1/2 the garage so she could pull her car in there. Well a while back she redid her kitchen, pulled out the old counter top and got new granate installed. It's very nice but my mom still had some pieces of the old counters in the garage. Why i have no idea, but she put them out to the end of the driveway so the garbage men would take them away. The problem was garbage day was delayed because of the holiday so there was no pickup that week, which isn't a HUGE deal unless you're Mike and think everyone is out to get you. So he pulls in and see's the old countertops at the edge of the driveway with some nails in them (because that is how they are attached afterall!) and gets all pissed and CONVINCED That my mom put them in the driveway (it was like a millimeter in the driveway) for him to run over and get a flat tire! SEROUSLY.....YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!! So he drove around Fulton and waisted gas all afternoon because he refused to come in the house....because my mom is out to get him. Yes he is a moron, my aunt realizes she married a moron and we have been telling her for years to leave the moron who dosn't think he needs to work, and has had cars and motor homes repo'ed because he just dosn't make the payments!

We are soo hoping for christmas he just stays home because christmas is at my house and i will not tolerate that type of childish behavior!