it looks like I bought a house....

It's super cute, and right across the street from a park, and down the street from a bigger park......
We are set to close on July 23rd. I'm just crossing my fingers that it all works out!

I've been super busy, lots of work, househunting and purchasing, voyages to various places, and more to come this weekend and so on.....I'm exhausted! by the time it's 8 pm all I want to do is go to bed. I went to bed really early last night, it's weird going to bed when it's still light out.

Bill Clinton is a playa

I put this picture as a repeating tile on my desktop in my profile at work. So when I log into the work computers I get 12 Bill's a winkin' at me. I'm finding it inspirational. Also, I've decided to stop logging out. So that when the computer falls asleep after I use it and someone goes to wake it up to use it themselves they'll get a little glimpse of winkin' Bill. I just want to share the love.

Wheelin' and Dealin'

I love my job.
It's the weirdest strangest scariest hardest job I have ever had. But it's been new and interesting every day, and I am learning so much and finding it all incredibly rewarding. I want my lifelong profession to include helping my friends make the biggest purchase and best investment of their lives. That makes me happy.
It's been a good week.
I got a full price offer on Alder, so far it's looking good. I'm house shopping now. got a real little hot cake to go look at this evening. I've also got a smattering of people I'm helping find property and negotiate other properties. Business is good, life is good.

back from the eug....again

Another grand weekend in Eugene has come and gone. I had an open house on Saturday for my Alder St house. it went pretty well, it was fun. This one woman came by who lives up on Kincaid, and she was looking around looking a little out of sorts, after a few minutes she said "Oh! I've been here before!" Turns out she looked at it when it was for sale before, when I bought it. She was very impressed with it now! She said the backyard is against her old friends yard, and she really wanted to be able to buy it back then but it needed too much work. I told her we did all the work, now she can buy it. She didn't seem that interested though. and now it's double the price. It was a funny experience.
We attended bradens graduation that night, congrats to Braden on graduating high school! and Austin's birthday was Sunday, congrats to Austin for turning 23!
Sunday afternoon we went rafting. Not just regular rafting though, we dressed up like pirates! Lots of red and white stripes and bandanas. We piled 11 people into our rubber raft. It's a 10 person raft, we had 10 adults plus one 5 year old. It was a heavy boat. But we had a great time! my mom took pictures, I'll post some when I get them from her.
and today, i got my first Realtor paycheck. Pretty sweet. the first of MANY more to come!

many adventures and goings-on

I've been all over the place, and have been a neglectful blogger. here are a few pics of a few of the things i've done lately.

Braden's eagle scout court of honor


the flags were falling, he rescued the flags instead of the table with all of his stuff on it. that's just the kind of good boy scout he is! sorry....thats EAGLE scout now!


this is the out-house house he built for his eagle scout project

we also did some hiking and swinging in the woods that weekend:





some playing with Aubs's old collection of beanie babies:


emme's in there somewheres.....

Raven's birthday party was a super afternoon in the park:








there were more cute babies and good lookin' peeps than should ever be allowed in one place.

the inauguration of the softtub:


featured mojas, pulpshopgirl, myself, and cristaliano.......

in other news:
We closed on my first transaction! Congrats to my uncle, he is the proud new owner of a duplex in jefferson. Great little investment property, the rents cover more than the mortgage. Just Great. and I gotta say props to me for getting him a screaming deal on it. That's right, 15k below asking price. It was on the market for awhile. Things don't move very quickly down there.
There's been quite a bit of interest in my house in Eugene, so that's promising. I'm holding an open house this saturday. Should be fun!
Grindhouse totally rules. go see it.