2007 is off to a great start!

can we just say yippee?!?!
Saturday I got my first solid contract. It's a cash deal on one of my listings, set to close Jan 31st. It'll be a back to back closing, so we'll be writing the contract on my clients new house to close right after the closing to sell their current house. So that will be two transactions for January! I'm stoked, the money is great and couldn't have come at a better time. And the icing on the cake? My client, who is also my dear friend will be moving into a new house that is very much "her" and have room to start expanding her family. Just happens her new house is in the development we're building in, so that is a plus too! We've been friends since 6th grade, and now we can raise our children together, me with a head start, but together none the less.
Also had a showing on another one of my listings today (wink wink Rachael) and have one on my other listing tomorrow. So one down, two to go, it's about time I'm seeing some action in the market!
I'm really excited about this because I was getting really discouraged. If you remember the first contract I wrote, it fell through today, had it not been for this string of good news the last few days I might have been pushed over the edge by this, but instead I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Jacob's Artwork

my child, well he's such a sweet child, but sometimes he just doesn't use his thinker. i had told him the other day that an artist always signs his artwork when he handed me some pictures that were pretty good but didn't have his name on them. the day goes on and that evening chris finds a lovely portrait on the wall upstairs. and i realize maybe he does use his thinker because he remembered to sign the crayon artwork on the wall in the upstairs den. now do i explain to him only use your name if you want someone to know it's your work.

Ever Have One of THOSE Days?

where you wonder why the flip you even got out of the bed??? well yesterday was one for me. started my day off in chaos, but of course in this house, that's normal, right?!? had a friend stop by to drop off some stuff, and hurried to finished getting ready. i finally get all the kids out the door and over to my mom's at 11am or so.....did i mention i have errands to run and have to be in haralson county by 1pm??? yeah. so one of my errands is to pull money from paypal for chris. well i obviously am a debit card idiot or something's up with my pin. i'm thinking the latter b/c i surely know how to spend the money from any other account linked with a debit card. i have been to 2 banks and tried multiple times to use this stupid card. i get "more than this atm can dispense" or "invalid card" or "does not support this network", WTF? so i go to krystal, where they have free internet and pull out the lap top. log on and change my PIN, which appeared to have never been set up 3 years ago when i got the card. ok. PIN set, i'm ready. go to bank #3. NOOOOOOOOO! so here i've spent all this time i don't have and accomplished nothing! go to Chris and tell him he's just going to have to deal with using the card and i'll figure it out this evening. now on the way there i am on the phone YELLING at the automated phone system paypal has...if you've never used it, well it's one of those you can speak to and it understands NOTHING. ok so deal with chris, and head to haralson county. got my directions, on my way. while i'm driving i pass 278 and realize that the dumbtards at mapquest have just sent me 30 miles out of my way!!!! grrrrr. oh well, the state pays milage on these site visits so it's all good. do my site visit and head home. it's earlier than i had anticipated, so i'm going to go home and lay down for an hour before heading to the bank and getting the kids. i get home and realize i don't have a front door key and my garage door opener is in my van....at my mom's house. ohhhK. i'll just go on to the bank, and oooohhh while i'm there i'll run over to sonic and get a smoothie..yummmm. well now, this account has about .81 in it and i've got nothing but hundreds for my deposit. my bank is CLOSED. they were just closed for 4 days straight and now they are closed at noon? ok i know this is their regular early day but after being closed that long??? come on. well sonic won't take a hundred dollar bill, my account is drained, chris has my paypal card, and i'm not about to charge a three dollar drink.....and my flippin' bank is closed. now remember i'm pregnant, and there's not much food that even remotely sounds appetizing, so telling me i can't have what i want is not acceptable. so i go get the card from Chris and trek back across town to Sonic. get my smoothie and just sit in my car thinking, why did i even get out of bed today???? oh yeah, for a smoothie! sure things could have been tons worse, but it was one of those days where you fee like you're trying to run but your feet are stuck in the mud and no matter how hard you try you're just not getting any where.