Super Soccer Kick..not so much

Well...Peyton had her first soccer game. Well..actually first 2 games. They played 2 on Saturday. Peyton was done the first 10 minutes of her 1st game! She really didn't do so good. She Ran...some. She pretty much followed the leader around the field. Wanted nothing to do with the ball. She practically ran away from the ball. She stood around until the coach or I told her to run. She was just not all there, I guess would be a good way of saying it. The coach did a good job of letting them all play, but to tell you the truth..I wouldn't have blamed him if she sat her out the whole game. She was so disinterested. She did get knocked down! The "pack"..you know the kids that were actually trying to get the ball..came by her and she got knocked over. She came out crying. LOL So she got her first soccer injury. Not really from being agressive and trying to get the ball, but trying to avoid the ball.

We are really going to need to work with her. So, I had a great idea of getting a few of us and playing a mock game in the backyard. So tonight we went to Andi's..got Ashleigh, Peyton, Andi, Steve, RC and I and we ran around the backyard and told Peyton to get the ball from us. "It's your ball...get it from us!!" Yeah...she tried for about 3 minutes. Then she ran over to the playground. LOL So much for that idea. Ugghh. Gonna take a lot of short interventions and a lot of patience to get this girl to pay attention and stay in touch with it. We'll see what happens. The video above is an example of what she did pretty much the whole game. Uncle Kevin came to the soccer game Sat. for a while! Thanks, Uncle Kevin.

We also went to Andi's tonight to get Andi to help me get Peyton's earring back in her ear. Steve and I have been trying since last night to put it back in. We got one in. But the other is bleeding and swollen. But doesn't seem infected. So I got some little loops that don't have a post so that it has room to breath, and there will be something in her ear to keep the hole open. A battle with these earrings I tell ya! I just don't get why they are bleeding so bad. Andi couldn't get it in either. Peyton FREAKS out when we try to get it back in! It is a HUGE ordeal, and it makes me so sad that she gets so upset. Andi usually does better than I do with the earrings, but no such luck tonight. We will try tomorrow again.

Other than that....not much else. A little bit of work here and there. We spent our Saturday night grocery shopping and then we came home and watched "Forgetting Sara Marshal" It was pretty funny. Did an open house today..as I will be doing every Sunday this month but one. uggh. So far, not too bad of a week. Just going to try and sell a house, as usual. ha

Here are some more pics from the soccer game. Enjoy and have a great week.

"You can do it Peyton!" LOL

Sittin' on the sidelines with her buddies.

"humm..wonder what's for lunch today"

"The ball..what ball..oh that ball." ha (She's #4)

October already!

So it's October already. Can you believe that! geeez.....time to start Christmas shopping. We have to get a huge head start because we are too broke to do it all at once. A little at a time is what must happen.

This week has been pretty uneventful. I did have my closing on Tues. I knew that closing wouldn't go too smooth. And I was right. It was all done in last minute mode. Loan docs. didn't get to the title co. until the middle of that afternoon. But we did it after some tense moments. Done with that one. Thank goodness. My client was so very appreciative of my work. It made me feel good. Especially after all he has been through since...oh...JUNE! He couldn't have been any more appreciative than he was. He said he wanted to get me a gift card to a restuarant...I told him not to worry about it, but he insisted and said he would take it to the office on Wed. I haven't been to the office, so I am not sure if he did drop it off. Usually they call me if somebody drops something off. But That was a nice thought. ha

My "show me every house in the area", has decided to take off the next couple of weeks of looking. Busy I guess. I hope she is not wavering on her decision to buy a house. I have spent a lot of time on her sooooo..... Then my other client that we put offers in on a couple of houses, didn't get the one he low-balled. shocker. ha Then he said that a friend told him about a house in Saginaw. I asked him who told hiim about it and he said a friend. I have him under a buyer rep. agreement, so it better not be another agent...or the other agent is going to owe me some money. He said he would get me the address, and I haven't heard from him. I emailed him and he hasn't replied. I guess I am going to call him tomorrow and find out what the deal is. Then my cutie pie young guy can't decide what he wants to do. Price range, area....can't decide. We are down to under $120k now. uggh. We shall see. I need another closing...preferably this month.

I managed to catch steve's nasty sickness. I started feeling it yesterday. I doped up and was asleep by 9:30. If anybody knows me, they know that I NEVER go to bed by 9:30. If I do...I am sick! So I slept like 11 hours...got Peyton to school..and came back home and slept another 2.5 hours! Goodness. Woke up, showered, got Peyton, got some lunch, dropped her to Andi and went to work at AAdvanced. I felt tired all day, and am coughing pretty good, but I think I feel better than yesterday. So I hope I am on the mend. Damn that Steve! ha

First soccer game is Sat! Make that 2 soccer games on Sat! Should be interesting. We were informed at practice tonight that Peyton will need to take her earings out for the games! OMG! Doesn't that coach know what kind of chore it is to put those things in and out! OY VEY. We actually had to take one out tonight because it had dried blood on it. Goodness...I had to bribe her with a choc. bar. miniature. Not cool! We will try...can't make any promises

So tomorrow...not much going on as of yet. Work at aadvanced. that's it. Saturday is going to be the fun day. I am on floor duty in the AM, however Peyton's games are from like 9:30-12:30 or something like that. Then a showing at 4pm in Grapevine. Maybe we will make a date out of that. Have hubby and daughter go with me, then go to Southlake and shop and dinner or something. It's a hike out that way, so hate to drive out there just for a showing.

Ok peeps! Sorry no pics. today. More later...night!

Football!

It is well into football season now. Damn Cowboys losing yesterday! urg. We are watching the Steelers on Monday night footall right now. They are coming back. I won't hear the end of it. Whatever.

Today soccer practice...Peyton didn't do so well. She was too busy socializing and sitting in the middle of the field on her soccer ball while everybody else was playing. I asked her why she did that, she said, "I was busy Mommy". She told the coach she was tired. ha OMG It's going to be an interesting, entertaining and frustrating adventure I am sure. Otherwise, she is catching on ok. She just needs to work on paying attention.

Closing tomorrow! woo-hoo!

How about that stock market...OMG! We are losing our ass on our Textron stock!

I bank at Washington Mutual...the day the announced the buyout to JPMorgan...it was on the online banking page "Wamu customers..welcome to JPMorgan Chase." Oh geez. I hate this.

I am expecting things to be extremely slow the next couple of months. I think until the first of the year and things settle down, people aren't even going to think about buying or selling houses. There are those that will, but they are going to be few and far between. I just would like to get those I do have settled and closed. I still am looking for 4 of them...so hopefully they come through.

that's really all I have. have a good week.

Summer video

K...downloading this video now for the 2nd time. All I did is hit enter..and poof...gone! urrrggg! It's long, so it takes forever to download.

Finally sat down and did this video. I am getting better. It only took me a bit over an hour to do it. The first one took me like 3 hours. Hope you enjoyed it.

So, been several days...sorry. Been a busy week. Even the one day I took off, it was a busy day. The highlight of my week was "Peyton Day". I decided that on Wednesday I was going to take off from both jobs. I told Peyton that she and I were going to spend the whole day together. She was very excited. Of course, we had to go to our pizza place together. Cheap...decent, and Peyton loves it. So we went and ate pizza. Then (not really for peyton..but had to be done) went and got my windshield wiper fixed and dropped off some dry cleaning. Then it was off to the costume store. We pulled up and she said "Mommy, this is the same place we came last year to get my dorothy dress!" I was stunned. I said, "that's great Peyton, who was with us?" "Brian, Andi, Ashleigh and Addy was in Andi's tummy." FREAKED me out! Honest to God. I didn't know kids at this age really had much of a long term memory. That was a year ago for crying out loud! I barely remember that. Geez! Smart kid! I am telling ya. So she picked out an Aerial (Little Mermaid costume) Very cute. I got the dress and the crown. They had the shoes, the wand, the wig...no. Not spending 50 buck-a-roos on all that. She loves it. She says she is Dora Mermaid. Because there is a movie that Dora is a Mermaid that she loves, apparently more than Little Mermaid. I don't know. So after the costume store, (which is Party City by the way...ha) she and I got ice cream and then a diet coke. ha Weirdly enough, she does like ice cream, but she is not in love with it. She basically ate enough ice cream to eat most of the m&m's on it. But she loves to get diet cokes with Mommy, so that was another special treat. Then went and hung at Andi's for a bit and headed on to Cheerleading practice. She did good. Thanks Jessica!!!! Poor Jess isn't going to be able to do it much longer. She is 5 mos. prego. ha So it was nice to just be with her all day.

Not a greatly productive week on the real estate front. My short sale is still set to close on Tues. of next week. Showed one evening to the "let's go see every house under $90k" lady. Did our meeting at the office....etc.

The AC co. doesn't have any AC!!!! WHAT! Yes...no AC at the AC co!!! It broke. We are going to call another AC co to come fix it if Brian doesn't get on it!!! Not a fun 2 days sitting in a hot office. And Brian has no sympathy...he's on a hot roof all day so what does he care that Jess and I sweat our tushies off in the office. ha

What else happened this week....hum.....oh yes! Peyton started her soccer practices. She is the youngest on the team. She is on a team with mostly 5 year olds. There is even a 7 year old. You would never know it, because she is just as tall as the others. But you can tell when it comes to her skills. It is cute to watch. The coach kind of has taken her under his wing to help the youngest one out a little more. She keeps running up to the ball and putting her foot on it and saying "that's my ball". Then just stands there with her foot on it. The games should be REAL interesting. Steve and I are going to work with her a bit this weekend. I think it is a for sure thing that we have to work with her on the side just to keep her competitive with the others. But she really does lose interest in about 30 mins. Cheerleading...same way. But she does well. I am proud of her. She is so excited to go, so I am happy she is loving both of the activities.

Went to dinner with Mom and Jim tonight. Thanks for dinner Mom and Jim. Yeah..we are broke. Broke until at least Tues. when I get a freakin paycheck finally. But I have bills that didn't get paid with Steve's paycheck so that will be gone in a big-fat hurry. Oh well...can only do what we can do.

Tomorrow is Steve's company picnic. Peyton should enjoy it. Then going over to a friend from his work and my former clients that I sold their house in Watauga. Going to see their new house.

Other than that folks...enjoy the video and have a GREAT weekend!

a lovely Sunday

It was really a nice day. After the day I had yesterday...I will take it. I worked ALL day Saturday! From about 10 am to 7pm. Showing mostly. This girl found a house she loves, and said she thinks she is going to make an offer...then sent me 12 more listings via email tonight to look at!!!! WHAT! HELLO!!!! Found one! Come on! I have already showed this girl 20 houses ALL around the metroplex. She is KILLING me! whatever. She better buy something soon. ha

Today. We hung out at home until about noon and slept till 10 am! ahhhh! Got dressed and went to Potbelly's for lunch. Yummy sandwiches. Then off to Academy to get peyton's soccer shoes, shin guards. Then I got to thinking. What is this girl going to wear to practice. All she owns are dressess, because that's all I could get her to wear all summer. So I bought her 3 pair of athletic type shorts and 4 t-shirts. Didn't think about the clothing issue until then. And we needed another chair for Steve to sit and watch practice and games. I had one already. So we spent a good $80 that we didn't have on all of that. uggh.

Peyton has her first soccer practice tomorrow. She is so excited. She wants to do her "super soccer kicks" really bad! ha I have been working with her out back kicking around the ball. Mainly to get her used to not picking up or touching the ball. Which she is coming along good. It is still not second nature for her not to pick that thing up. ha Kinda funny. She gets frustrated. She enjoys it. She says, "Mommy, I'm busy. I have to sit down now." after about 10 minutes of that. Short attention span. Wonder what she is going to do on the soccer field.

Lately she has been telling me I'm sorry a lot. When she gets put in time out, and I get her out and talk to her about why she was in time out, she has to say she is sorry. So when we were at the store tonight, she was being a brat and I snapped at her. She started crying and saying, "I'm so sorry Mommy". "I didn't mean to be a brat baby." Me being upset with her is total punishment for her. She hates when I am upset with her. More than a spanking or time out, I think. She said when I put her to bed tonight. "Mommy I am so sorry I was being a spoiled brat baby today". I said, "It's ok Peyton. Let's try to have a better day tomorrow." She was acting liked a spoiled brat tonight because it wasn't enough that we spent $80 on all her soccer stuff, but then she got candy at the store, and a cool toothbrush. Then she complained because she didn't get ice cream and the pictures that I was looking at. So that's where she got that from.

After our shopping trip, I dropped Steve off to hang with the boys to watch football and Peyton and I went to RC's house to hang out there. We weren't allowed to hang with the boys. Whatever.

Alrighty then...another busy week ahead. Ya'll have a good week!

WHAT! A week!

Oh my gosh! I can't believe I haven't blogged all week. Sorry bloggers. It's been another hairy week at the York household.

So let's catch up, shall we. Steve...Steve..Steve...He is sick. Has been since Tuesday. He missed Tues, Wed. and today of work. He went to work on Thurs, but ended up at the dr. by afternoon. He has bronchitis, pharygitis (sp?), sinus infection and an ear infection. OY VEY! The biggest problem is he hasn't been able to sleep because his pharnyx is inflamed and swollen it is making like he has sleep apnea. Which he does have a mild case, but it was wayyy worse. He would snore.......not breath........and then wake up from lack of air. He would do this about every minute. I couldn't sleep because I was scared he wouldn't wake up in time for air. We tried every position for him to sleep. On the side, on the other side, sitting up, on his stomach! Goodness. So the dr. gave him a shot with steriods and something else. He is already feeling much better. Let's all hope he sleeps better too. By early this morning, he already was breathing better, thus sleeping better. Not much fun here. I am trying to stay well...Peyton has said she has a sore throat. Her voice is raspy and is coughing. But acting fine and no fever. I think she is ok. We all just need to get lots of rest and fluids and take our vitiminsto keep well. Not much else we can do. I don't have time to get sick!!! I know that!

My short sale! The one that I said in a previous entry wasn't going to happen! It's lookin' up folks! YIPPIE! All the liens got released by some miracle of GOD! We got an executed contract, and are due to close on the 30th! Everybody say a little prayer that nothin else comes up on this damn house. I am not discounting anything...because anything can happen between now and then, and I am sure something will. I just hope whatever it may be can be resolved in time. the 30th is the absolute drop dead date!

Wrote another offer on a house...twice, because I messed up. oy vey. I showed last night until 8pm. I am showing for a lease tomorrow, and showing the same person I showed last night again tomorrow. She's kinda driving me crazy. She sends me 10 listings at a time to go look at. You can get about 2 houses in an hour by the time you get there, look and drive to the other. So if that tells you how much time I am going to spend showing this woman. And it's only a home in the $80k range....so not much money for me. Whatever...it's something. Then I went tramping through the mud last night after I finally got home at 8:30pm. My listing I have across the street from me has water coming from the flower bed. There is a busted pipe or something in there. I couldn't find the location of it because it is so overgrown and was so dark. The owner had the water turned off today, and it stopped, but there is still a leak somewhere that needs to get fixed or she will need to disclose it.

Today, got up ran errands, met my friend for lunch with Peyton and her daughter, dropped Peyton at Andi's so I didn't have to drive across town to drop her off to steve at home (thanks andi) and made it to AAdvanced on time. Then went to andi's to pick her up and we all decided to go to Olive Garden. Went and picked up Steve and off we went. I couldn't eat much because I was still kinda not hungry from lunch. But it was good. Everybody picked on Steve because nobody wanted to sit by the cootie boy. ha Poor steve. hehe

Peyton starts soccer on Monday. Her first practice with Coach Scott. She is so excited. I just hope she is not getting sick and not be able to go. I would be sad for her. She asked me all kinds of questions tonight. "how many other kids will be on my team", "What is a coach", "is it a boy or girl", what color is my uniform", "will the other boys and girls have soccer balls like me", "I'M GOING TO DO LOTS OF SUPER SOCCER KICKS!" (That's from Dora the Explorer) ha Safe to say...she is excited.

I am tired! I had a client calling me at 10:10pm tonight! Out of line? What do you think? I told him it was ok, but seriously...would you call your Realtor at 10pm at night? I wouldn't. I didn't answer the first time at 9:45, and didn't answer again at 10:10 when he called. So I just decided to call him back so he wouldn't call again. I don't know....crazy. Whatever. I tell ya...it's a 7 day a week job, all hours of the day.

That's really it. Really it was a busy week, but I will take this week over last week. Last week was way worse. Tomorrow is promising to be busy. Have to meet up with the guy that called late tonight at 11am tomorrow to pick up his contract. Then floor duty from 9-1, showings from about 1pm to 7pm. Gonna be a long day. I better go to bed. I am going to need my rest. ha

I will not go a week before my next entry. Have a GREAT weekend peeps!

Weekend stuff

So, I guess i haven't posted in a few days. Let's see what I have from the weekend. Really, it was pretty uneventful. Here are some pics and a video clip from our Friday night. We went to Saginaw High School's Homecoming game.

Below: Ash boogies to the beat. so cute and great rythm



Below: Peyton strikes her usual pose

Below: Brit with her huge mum leading the band

Below: Syd with her mum from her little boyfriend. Isn't that the cutest!

Below: Peyton's favorite part..The cheerleaders


So the Friday night football game was fun. Lot's of drama to keep it interesting...the mum from the "new Boyfriend", while the old boyfriend showed up at the game too. Band Mom's gossip about how other mom's won't talk to other mom's because of this "boyfriend" issue.
Justin, who was the boy that got in a horrible car accident at the end of Aug., who is the "new boyfriend" to Brittany, came to the game. He was on the homecoming court, but didn't win king. He tried to sit in the stands and play his drum, but was having trouble remembering the music and was getting dizzy and had to leave. Poor guy. That was all too much for him this soon. But is still making a miraculous recovery. One lucky kid, I tell ya. He really is a sweet boy. He is very outgoing and very sweet, and I think really likes Brittany. He and Britt have been friends since he moved here their freshman year. They are also both going to Stephen F. Austin next year as well. They have a lot in common, and are a cute couple. Our whole family just loved Brian, Brittany's old boyfriend. He was a great influence on Brittany, smart and sweet. They are still very great friends, talk all the time, and spent some time together this weekend. I really do believe Brittany just wanted to not be tied down during her Sr. year. I don't blame her. Maybe they will find their way back to each other. Who knows.

Saturday...we were supposed to have Hurricane Ike come through here. It ended up going East of us, so we didn't get much in the way of rain or wind. I had appointments set up for Sat. but the girl I was showing didn't want to take her kid out in it, which was FINE with me. I needed the day off. It was nice. We just hung out at home, took a nap, and later went out to dinner with RC, Kevin and Sydney. That was it!

Sunday..I had a couple people to show. Worked from about noon to 4pm. I went and got my car washed in the AM on Sunday, and the damn thing ripped off my entire back windshield wiper! It had been damaged in another car wash that I don't frequent anymore for that very reason. So really, I wasn't too upset by it because it was damaged and now I get it replaced for free. haha

Today I have felt like I was walking in a fog all day. I think my head is stuffy or something. I don't know. I did take Nyqul last night and slept 9 hours, but I don't think it was enough. I went into work at C21 and called in sick to Aadvanced. Left C21 and came home and took a nap. And I already feel better. When I feel like I might be getting sick, I am the type that has to sleep, sleep and sleep some more, and then I am fine. So there will be more Nyquel any minute now, and am hoping for another 9 hours of sleep...at least. ha

Peyton is doing well. We have a new parent soccer meeting on Thurs. night, and she starts practice on the 22nd. First game, I think, is like Oct. 4th. I am excited for her to start. It will be a great time for her. We've been letting her play with her soccer ball, and now we can't find it. ugghh... Otherwise..she is being her usual self. Really, the last couple of months, she has been pretty good. Very few time outs...just the typical 3 year old type stuff. Talks too much, bounces around a lot, and is testing her limits with the words that she says..ie..."Butt" is her favorite word right now. "Tootie-stinky butt"..thats her favorite. ha Everything ends with the word, butt. Stupid..that's another one..but we are breaking her of that. Ashleigh has started saying the word "hate" a lot..and guess who has started that! Yes, Peyton. Thanks Ash! ha

Otherwise, not much else going on. Just trying to make it through the week until payday! Oy vey...we are broke this week. I need all 6 of my clients to make a decision and CLOSE! Momma needs a payday! ha

Have a good week, Ya'll!