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21 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

A whole new level of expensive

You know what’s expensive? FURNITURE. Specifically, bedroom furniture. I can swallow dropping six hundred bucks on a nice kitchen table that I’m going to have to look at every day while I’m eating dinner off a $400 coffee table while sitting on a $500 couch and watching a television set that cost more than I [...]

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08 May 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Retraction

Several readers have pointed out that none of the addresses in my previous post are actually in Roger’s Park. And then Bench himself told me I’m too much of a dumb Trixie for his ‘hood.
Ouch! I stand corrected! Reading comprehension has never been my strong suit. I got perfect scores on the English and math [...]

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07 May 2008 ~ 16 Comments

Home Sweet Refrigerator Box

Our landlord in Nashville has begun showing our house to potential tenants. We are driving up to Chicago next week to find a place to live, but if our previous house-hunting experiences are any indication, it takes us an average of 4.5 months of serious looking to find a place that is remotely acceptable for [...]

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24 May 2007 ~ 7 Comments

I'm not going to spend my life being a color.

Black or white, people, black or white? I’m trying to decide between a black car with a tan interior or a white car with a tan interior.
I’ve always thought white cars were girly in a good way. This assumption is based almost entirely on the fact that my brother had a girlfriend who used to [...]

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30 March 2007 ~ 0 Comments

L. Ron Hubbard is doing my taxes

Back in the day, Rob and I had a great real estate agent, L, who helped us find our place. She was smart, gorgeous, fun to be around, and an all-around interesting person. I pretty much wanted to be her. In fact, we were both quite befuddled as to why some guy hadn’t snatched her [...]

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