tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12420402537030350352011-11-27T16:18:01.124-08:00Marla's MeanderingsThoughts, anecdotes, ramblings, events, musings and other random thoughts shared on paper.mjvailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00320932979802267383noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1242040253703035035.post-12915204298550334012010-04-05T10:32:00.000-07:002010-04-05T10:32:03.743-07:00Working...considering work to be play.....!!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am blessed with working within 1000 yards of the Atlantic Ocean...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessed to work so close to fantastic fishing...<br />Sure it is "work", but helping people find the home of their dreams....</div><div style="text-align: center;">or sell their home to move on to new adventures in life.....</div><div style="text-align: center;">This isn't work, I am blessed.......this work is play!</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3ScmKLtXa08/S7ocMTxlLQI/AAAAAAAAAAw/FGPfh8ZjV-8/s1600/PercentChange09-10Chart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3ScmKLtXa08/S7ocMTxlLQI/AAAAAAAAAAw/FGPfh8ZjV-8/s320/PercentChange09-10Chart.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Those of you who know me know I have been in real estate sales for a long time. Every market I have been in, except the market of 2004-2006 has a lot of people who complain about how "bad" the market is.<br /><br />Here I find myself in lovely Wilmington NC......home of the Azalea Festival (yes this week!) where southern belles dress in fine gowns sitting beneath Grand Ole Live Oak trees......and REALTORS say this market is bad.<br /><br />Well, the proof (as usual) is in the numbers. <br /><br />Wilmington is HOT!!!!!!!! <br /><br />Units sold UP.....prices UP.......<br /><br />so, since things are looking good....NOW is the time to sell if you live in or around Wilmington....<br />this includes the lovely beaches of Kure, Carolina & Wrightsville Beach.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1242040253703035035-1291520429855033401?l=mjvail.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mjvailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00320932979802267383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1242040253703035035.post-79059247726611807902010-02-11T07:39:00.000-08:002010-02-11T07:39:14.246-08:00Sheer Balance<a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=An3qkEwDTXta6QwmlkJs8_mkfqU5/SIG=111cuk00k/**http%3A//www.sheerbalance.com/">Sheer Balance</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1242040253703035035-7905924772661180790?l=mjvail.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mjvailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00320932979802267383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1242040253703035035.post-24367296904660674782009-12-27T18:56:00.000-08:002009-12-27T18:56:47.209-08:00December 27, 2009<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is hard to believe that we are nearly 10 years into this millennium. It is true, the older one gets, the quicker time passes. It seems like just yesterday that we all were wondering if the internet would crash at midnight on January 1 2000.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, nearly ten years have passed. It truly seems like the bat of an eye. However, since then my life has nearly completely changed. More about that later.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I remember as a youth, I wondered if I would still be alive in the year 2000. I certainly am glad I am alive. This past year has been especially interesting. I have moved in with a man after being alone for nearly four years. I have moved into two different states in the past year. I have given all of my household belongings to my oldest son, and replaced them with new items, I now wish I didn't even have. I have hiked on the Appalachian trail, camped alone in the Smokies, have become unemployed, and can't remember the last time I was this happy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I dream of future adventures I will take, goals I want to accomplish and tasks I want to take on. My focus is on knowledge that I am uninhibited and free. The only confines that hold me are self imposed, and I have the ability to go, and do whatever I wish. Life is exciting again. I am blessed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tonight I finished realing the book "Tales of a Female Nomad", by Rita Golden Gelman. Her's is a life I wish to emulate. She lived her dream of living among various people around the world. She bravely went to places where she could not speak the verbal language, but knew the "language" of demeanor, respect, kindness, music, smiles and laughter. I too want to be a female nomad. I may not travel the world as she did (perhaps one day), however I have in me the fire to be a "nomad" in this country. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My goal is to find a reasonably priced, and moderately sized trailer I can comfortably drag behind my H3, and visit different places in this country. I want to go back to Maine and summit Katahdin fully. I want to go out west, perhaps go to Alaska. Perhaps go to the Florida Keys in winter. I have the freedom to go and not be bound to a house, job and other "responsibilities" I have been bound to in the past.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That is not to say I don't have bills, I do. Presently I am unemployed, however I will again have a career that can travel with me, and if I have a good business plan I stick to, I can arrange to take several months off each year. Better still, would be to fulfill a dream of becoming a writer. Perhaps, that can also be accomplished in that "off" time. Perhaps this "blog" is a way to tapping into my desire to write. No hurry or worries, I believe I will find a way to accomplish the goal of writing as a form of earning income.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Life is exciting. I wish all people felt as I do. I wish all persons loved their lives. Perhaps that is yet another dream; to find a way to pass the joy of living along to those who seek it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1242040253703035035-2436729690466067478?l=mjvail.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mjvailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00320932979802267383noreply@blogger.com0