A perk?

I received this email at work today...


"I have a client that says that their house is haunted. They are considering selling and think that it is a perk. I would like any agents having dealt with this type of a thing before, to contact me. Thanks."


1) Has any other agent seriously dealt with this before!? and 2) Is this market so terribly bad that a haunted house is now a selling "perk"??? Yikes.

It's a Gala...a Regatta Gala

It was actually not a regatta gala, but I couldn't stop telling people it was. It just comes out of my mouth, preceding the word "Gala". Blame it on watching too many Friends episodes.

This weekend Brad and I headed down to Tacoma to attend a fundraiser for the Northwest Leadership Foundation. My cousin works for the foundation and invited us to join them for an evening of eating, drinking, dancing and gambling. It was a masquerade, called "Venetian Carnival". We didn't win the trip to Venice, but we did play blackjack ALL NIGHT LONG. I was quite a pro in the end!

Brad and I with our masks!

Michelle & Holly

Brad and I, along w/ cousins Jen, Elliot & Holly

Gwinn family puppy!

Just like the Obamas, it was time for my family to get a puppy too! My dad recently got our newest addition, Olivia, a Lahsa Apso puppy. I am dying to go home to Walla Walla for Christmas so I can meet her! As of last week she weighed just 3 pounds, sooo cute & tiny. Sigh.

Feeling...

INSPIRED.

Image via The Seattle Times

What a truly amazing experience last night, to witness such an important day in American history. So excited for the future...and so incredibly proud.

Are you kidding me!?

I just had to attempt to type that in as my word verification on Google. Who can honestly read that!? Is that really necessary?

Sad...

I just saw a posting for someone selling their Apple Cup tickets to the game in Pullman in a couple weeks. It said "Come watch the two worst teams in the history of football play eachother in Apple Cup 2008. It will probably suck really bad." Thank goodness UW is terrible too.

Poor Cougs :( We are currently ranked 113th out of 119 teams. Awesome.

Halloween

I tend to always travel right before halloween every year. I don't know why, it just always works out that way. Every year I seem to be running around like crazy right before Halloween night, racing around putting together a costume. This year we returned from our trip a little less than a week before, only to leave me struggling for my life to stay up past 9 pm (due to the 9 hour time difference). I decided not to attend a halloween party this year, in addition to my sleeping problem I also did not have a costume. Instead, I decided to pretend that Brad was a child and make a "scary" dinner for him! Although very cute, the dinner itself was kind of gross. We watched "101 scary movie moments" or something like that and I fell asleep around 9:30. Crazy night.

Spooky salad with Saliva dressing

Creepy Mummy Dogs

Dirt & Worms (this was actually incredible...lots of layers of ice cream & cookie crumbles!)