Real Estate 101

Hi....it's me....Annie Grace......

I have some exciting news. No seriously.......

I have a new pink fleece blanket. After all of my rolling on the towels and draping my body over the mound of towels for....about an hour The Lady has figured out that it's not just the fabric softeners. I am quite happy these days. So much so I actually sat at conversed with her. It started by accident. I was sitting on the floor gazing up through a window to the sky.....for about an hour. Then I hear "Oh...Annie...what are you doing?" I turn my head about 1/8th of a millimeter toward her (which she will never notice) and think of all of my possible responses.
1. I am pretending I am a statue
2. I am speaking to an alien...telepathically
3. Looking for Fred...The Fox
4. Conversing with a Hawk....using Morse code...in my head
5. Practicing good cat posture
6. Meditating
7. Signally a Hawk where the squirrels are...I could use a little carnage action to watch
8. Seeing how long I can sit without you asking me what I am doing.

But No...... "Nothing Mommy Dearest.....are you working today?" is my response. I get up and sit at the kitchen table with her patiently listening to her upcoming day. Knowing that my pink blanket and a nap are only an hour a way.....I try really hard to not let me eyes glaze over as she is talking. I have now memorized her day. I am suspect that she will only fix her lip stick once today but....other than that I think all of her days are like this!

10:00 am Go to pick up a client
10:28 am Find flashlight, boots and hand sanitizer
10:30 am Show a foreclosed house (priced at $139,000) Seriously!
10:40 am Leave the foreclosed house as the client says it needs too much work
10:44 am Figure out what legal ramifications there are for strangling a client
10:50 am Googling the maximum prison time sentence for leaving client by the side of the road
10:53 am Smile and put client back in the car
10:54 am Agree with the client that the home of her dreams is obtainable and the 22 foreclosed homes looked at in her price range are not an indication of what she can afford.
11:00 am Drop client back off with a smile agreeing that "We'll keep looking"
11:25 am Fix 3 For Sale signs that the plows have knocked over
11:40 am Fix 2 For Sale signs that the wind has blown over wondering why the Sellers can drive out 4 times a day and never fix it themselves
12:00 pm Home Inspections - 2 hours of listening to everybody and their expert opinion on EVERYTHING.
2:00 pm Leave home inspection. Get stuck in the snow
2:30 pm Get out of the snow and fix lip stick
2:45 pm Grab a Vitamin Water for lunch
3:00 Wonder what to do for an hour before next showing. Stroll through Marshall's for 45 minutes with no wallet all while avoiding 8 people you really don't want to bump into.
3:50 pm Drive 30 minutes to next appointment. Can't open the main gate with remote. Park down the street and walk to complex. Try gate opener again and it works.
4:30 pm Clients arrive. Spend 2 1/2 minutes looking and they say nothing. Smile, wave and say "Thanks for coming!"
4:41 pm Back in car, drive 30 minutes home.
5:15 pm Wonder if it's too early for a Princess Martini

I myself will spend all day upstairs on my pink blanket.