Real Estate Open Season!

Projects...always projects!

In knitting news: I'm slowly knitting my Clessidra knee socks, evidence of which can be found at the Clessidra Knitalong. I'm down to the ankle on this first sock now, and really...it does look better than in that pic. :P Kosher pickles, kosher pickles! Yum.

I'm also constantly scanning the world for interesting and well-priced worsted and DK yarns for some other projects I have in my mental to-do list, and maybe, just maybe, I will do Stephanie Japel's Cable-Down Raglan in some pretty chrome green yarn I frogged from a ha-YUGE thrift store sweater recently. I love the whole recycled-yarn thing, not least because I am SO a thrill-of-the-hunt type. Always have been, from my earliest childhood yard sale and flea market fun (at least as far back as 7 years old), to my graduate school research, on through a life as an antique dealer, and beyond...

In real estate news, I have a few irons in the fire -- although the people I'm working with are mostly in the "very interested but still not out of the comfy chair" stage. I also find it kind of weird that, driving around on 70 degree days, I see VERY FEW "For Sale By Owner" signs out there yet. Is it really not well known that March is when buyers begin lining up at the starting gate? (It would be one thing if there were still snow on the ground.) With all the people who wanted to sell near the end of last year and couldn't, if I were one of them I'd be all about putting that sign out there NOW.

How about one of mine?

First Post!

...which I'll be changing completely later.

This is a "real estate" blog that isn't so much a real estate blog. Or rather...this blog will have a lot more to it than real estate, because there's a lot more to ME than just real estate.

I've never been a one-track person, never single-minded enough to be obsessive about just one thing. You know those multifarious, multi-talented overachievers that go to places like Harvard? They're experts at deep-sea diving, ballroom dancing, analyzing poetry, stoichiometry, and oh by the way, have mastered the art of tutoring local middle-schoolers in perfect Tagalog.

Well...that's not quite me, but inside I can understand that intense interest in several pursuits. I'm just not as driven as the ones who were nurtured enough in their youths to reach professional levels at everything I do. Maybe in 3 or 4 of my talents, yeah...but not all of them. And I'm sure I have the Potential to be pretty darn good at most of them. But there are other things I'd rather be doing...like...blogging? Hmm....I dunno about that one...