I’LL HAVE A BLOODY MARY, A STEAK SANDWICH AAAND A STEAK SANDWICH
Easier than writing lots of individual emailsArchive for December, 2006
SIONA DID IT. WE HAVE IT NOW.
Another fine friend has joined the world of Bloggerdom. Everyone, please give a hearty wordpress welcome (HWPW) to … Siona Savini!
Ona, dude, I’m soooo stoked you’re on our team now!
I expect fine things from your brain and tap tap tapping fingers!
CHRISTMAS LETTER PET PEEVES
I actually really like getting people’s Christmas letters/pictures. I really do read them. Every last word. I like the updates. I like the connecting (for some of us, once a year). I like the idea that staying in touch can be so simple. Thank you for taking the time to write them, address them, and mail them. Sincerely. HOWEVER……there are a few things I wish were required in order for people to have authorization to mail out communique en mass. So, tonight, as I was re-going through all the cards in order to upate any new addresses, I had a few ‘i should blog about that’ moments about Christmas letters…
1) If a picture is going to be attached, please be sure that ALL family members are in said picture…not just the children or the dogs. As much as each person digs their own kids, the rest of us want to see the context in which the precious little lamb exists. Seriously. It’s likely we originally knew the parents, not the kids and so we are usually far more interested in the progress of our long lost friends (and we care about your kids too). If you want to run with the big dogs, note the Braden’s Christmas letter. I like
MY LIFE AS A PERPETUAL SNL SKETCH!
Well, I’m back! Visiting up in SF for Christmas was FAN-tastic! It was fantastic for maybe unconventional reasons and that’s due mostly to the fact that my family is exceptional in so very many many hilarious ways. As a foundational aside, some of you know that at any given moment I am seeing life on a split screen: one screen is reality of what is currently happening in front of my eyes, the other screen is that same reality scene…only difference is that the scene is IN an SNL skit. So, when you have 4 Driscoll family days with tons of people, tons of food, tons of alcohol, tons of ‘Office-like’ characters, tons of religious angles, tons of stories, tons of history, tons of tons of tons…one can ONLY imagine the hilarity of THAT SNL sketch! It’s just another day in the life of ‘going home for Christmas’ !!!!
I will have to give details later cuz at the moment I must show houses, as I have many burgeoning home buyers chomping at the bit to look at homes and buy them (YAY!)…tis the season when the ‘transition year’ for real estate fades and now we’re back in business…JUST as some of us predicted!
Stay tuned!
MORE LATER
It’s been a busy time…highlights
Dec 17th: am Church Christmas Services; pm sang at prison for 3 services…lots of observations about life, God, grace, freedom, redemption, forgiveness, and more…
-Dec 18th: got paid, ran zillions of errands (bank deposit 
), sang for Jennene’s classes, showed properties to clients, started watching the movie Sybil
-Dec 19th: more errands, finally got my hair done (it’s very different than usual), ran more errands, looked at a house, finished Sybil, hung out with the Kellers (dinner, movie, tea…great fun! I miss them!)
-Dec 20th: probably leaving LA to drive up to the SF bay area…not sure yet
If I don’t find my way to a computer over the Christmas weekend, please have a very very Merry one and I hope that the birth of Christ is central to you, not only at this time of year, but rather all year long. The birth of Christ is essential to the true Christian’s hope and earthly purpose. His death on the cross for our sins and His resurrection from the grave were only possible through His life through birth. So, please, in this time of great distraction, reflect and rejoice that Emmanuel has come!
CRASH. I’M SORRY.
Have you seen the movie CRASH? There was a lot to it, but one of the moments I remember was when the narrator was talking about how we’re so autonomous in LA, all in our own little cars, that sometimes we crash into each other just to touch someone else. Hmmm.
Well, today was a very full day. We helped someone clean their garage and then had an evening Christmas party at my house. During the garage purging, I had to go meet a client to give her the keys to her new home that closed escrow around 10am. It has been a very difficult escrow on many levels and I just wanted to get to my client and get back as fast as possible. In an effort to serve my client, I was rude Read the rest of this entry »
VIRTUAL HIGH-FIVE (GREASEMONKEY)
Last night as I was leaving the house my purse was full and Zach’s hands were dirty. So instead of me leaning down to give him a kiss goodbye and having all my purse contents spill aross the floor and instead of Zach giving me a dirty high-five, I opted for the ‘Virtual High-Five’ (VHF, as we say in the industry). After 1 VHF attempt, some wry smiles and 2 or 3 perfectly executed VHFs, Zach he was an old pro.
I think he should get corporate sponsors.
Seriously. VHFs and the like…THAT’s why you have kids! (or why your dear friends have kids)
“YOU’RE AN ACTION VERB”
Ok, sure, there are lots of deep and meaningful thoughts about which that I’d love to blog. But, right now, I share with you another jewel from Jr High Subbing -Courtesy of Rio Norte 7th Grade English class!
Ok, so the class lesson was on ‘Action Verbs’. After multiple attempts to identify the part of speech during the class discussion, Girl A was drowning. Unsolictied, Boy B, with some ‘duh’ to his tone, whispered ‘it’s an ACTION verb’. Girl A replied with a muttered yet clearly irritated, ‘YOU’RE an action verb’. Astounded at the hilarity, well, mostly at the maturity of said retort, I calmly asked Girl A, ‘Did you just call him an action verb?’. With fear of discipline in her hunched shoulders and wide eyed reply, she sheepishly said, ‘Yes’, clearly fearing the assumed inevitable teacherly recourse. Instead, I laughed and said, ‘Ok. Now THAT was funny.’
We all laughed…except for Boy B. The best part of it all is that, unbeknowst to the students, my friends and I actually joke like that with each other…replicating a junior high mentality. It’s just delightful when I get to see our humor’s origin up close and personal. YOU’RE an action verb.
YOU ARE ALL SO SWEET
Well, thanx for everyone’s comments about the lime green theme. For the good of the masses, I am trying this brown one out. It was interesting that most of the men hated the lime green (but not you Palmer…thanx for fighting for it) and most of the other gender loved it. Does this have some deeper sociological meaning that I should be contemplating? Nonetheless, I figured, I would put aside my own preferences (and the preferences of the female portion of our race) and discard the lime green. Amen.
So, how about this one?
I NEED YOUR OPINION
What do you think of this ‘theme’? I’m thinking of changing, but want to know what’s easier for you to read. Talk to me. I care. Just like Carrows.
THEN ROLL AN EIGHT. CASINO NIGHT-COLDWELL BANKER STYLE
Last Friday night was the 3rd Coldwell Banker awards banquet I’ve been to since my employ. Every year has been themed ‘Casino Night’. The creativity is impressive. Now, if you know me, you know that this year’s banquet held even greater significance since the Office season finale “Casino Night” last year. Please, you can place your bottom dollar bets that Scott Vinson and I did, in fact, recite many a line from the beloved episode… “Lady luck is your mistress tonight (supposed to be ‘Lady Fortune is your boss)”, yeah, I used that one alot.
We played craps the entire ‘casino’ time. I’d never played before, didn’t really embrace all the rules, waited for Scott to tell me what to do, cheered for us and our other funloving table mates and said ‘Then roll an eight’ alot, and consistently won.
Another fun moment was that I won an award, which I wasn’t expecting. It was a production award for over $3 million. So, I’m thankful for that. DinkinFlicka. DinkinFlicka.
