At the office

It is time for me to post again. Time goes way too fast. I'm here at the office at the secretary's desk while she is at lunch. This morning before I left the house. I looked at the 6 foot nutcracker and decided it is well past time to lug him up to the attic. I still have furniture to bring down from the attic too. And to think, it is only 330 days until Christmas, which means I will be decorating for Christmas in 270 days. Maybe I should just leave the nutcracker in the foyer and just cover it up with a white sheet until next year. I could dress him in costumes to match the upcoming holiday, a Cupid for February, a Easter bunny for March. You get the idea.

Business is kind of slow this time of year, but I think it is going to be a good year in Real Estate. I am started on my schedule of every Sunday open houses. I did get lucky and sold a new construction in Brandon, and I got to list the buyers' house in Sioux Falls. So it is worth giving up a couple of hours every Sunday.

I just finished the book "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. I found it at a Good Will. I had just watched the movie Sylvia about her life. It was a pretty good movie, not great but fair. And it made me curious about her writing. The book was depressing and not that good. I guess I don't need to read about someone else's struggle with sanity, when it seems like our family is struggling with theirs. So I wouldn't recommend reading it. I am reading "The Children's Blizzard" now. It is pretty interesting. It is about the 1888 South Dakota blizzard that killed over 500 people, many of them children. The author does a nice job of giving background information about the settlers. I would recommend this book. I am just going to start reading "The Mother" by Pearl Buck. Has anyone read it? I hope it is good. On a different note, I have seen a couple of really good movies too. Ray is excellent! You just never know about a person's life. Go see it or rent it! Another extremely good movie is Ladder 49. I thought it might be kind of lame like Back Draft, but I was wrong. It is so good and well done. It should be viewed on the Big Screen rather than renting it. Trust me, it is a must see. National Treasure was ok, I enjoyed it, but it doesn't compare with the other two. Still worth seeing though.

Well, I promised a quote a day so I better get back on track:

Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." Luke 9:23, NKJV