H and I flip houses. We find real estate a fascinating affair. It took me a bit, but I can get just as a excited as he can when it comes down to it. I love the idea of picking out cabinets, flooring, and paint for a house that I will never live in. Seeing how a putrid piece of property shakily standing on its last leg can almost overnight come together into something beautiful makes me proud. We really think of it as a service we are doing for the community not just a job. A beautification of sorts. Though sometimes we get obsessed. We talk about houses and various properties continuously. What's the deal with this one or that one? Have you heard back from the so and so. What custom home builder are we going with for such a major overhaul and so on. Sometimes we fear that we bit more … [Read more...]
A Few Things
I consider myself a new writer. Just trying to make it in the world today. Yes, sometimes it takes a lot.... Really, though I'm not. I've been doing the whole writing thing for quite some time. I just never had it technically published or was paid for it outright. I did a lot of technical manuals in my day. Data sheets, course catalogs and generally dry stuff. Before that, I wrote some pretty serious papers on the life of your average gilded age princess, the civil war and how it affected women, and the every day life of the 19th Century person. I wrote some pretty kick ass stuff as I was told in not those exact words. I have talent. A passion and gift for writing.Ok fine. So here I am actually trying to make a living from it and I'm pissed. I get really angry when I see ads on job boards … [Read more...]
Rock the VOTE!
In addition to the already fun and cool photo contest I have going there is a new one.This one involves voting. VOTING FOR ME! It's Blog for a Year, a year where I would be paid to professionally blog. What could be more fun? For me that is. Anyway, don't you want to exercise your right to vote? So click here and vote. You can vote everyday too. Please do it. Do it for T.D. who likes to gnaw on plastic but I can't feed her that!Vote daily. Tell your friends to vote. Tell your mailman, your personal trainer, tell your friends and family-VOTE FOR VICKY! … [Read more...]
Cry for Help
I'm a good little blogger. I think. I write posts daily, sometimes more than once on several different blogs. I do copy for some other sites, pick up projects and in all show that my love is for writing. It's my passion. My addiction is blogging. If BlogHer '07 was feasible this year I would be right there in the thick of it sucking up information like a good little sponge while slurping down fun drinks and geeking out meeting "the cool" bloggers.But, like any addict the more I get, the more I seem to want. Awards are more than wonderful. They help me get through the dark days. Fan mail, presents, additional work, and comments all feed my black addict hole of need. I think we bloggers know what I'm talking about. They keep me going on some days when I think that absolutely no one cares or … [Read more...]