{"id":11895,"date":"2010-05-03T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:57:50","slug":"gleeks-freaks-and-affirmations-that-improve-my-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11895\/gleeks-freaks-and-affirmations-that-improve-my-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Gleeks, Freaks, and affirmations that improve my mood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talking with a client a few weeks ago. She’s been in her home for two years now, and her biological clock is beginning to tick tock. She’s nesting. It’s fascinating to see how property ownership impacts lives in a big way.<\/p>\n

It is the husbandry of the land \u2014 each man to his own parcel \u2014 that most makes husbands of us, that sweeps away our willingness to live as brigands or rapists or thugs.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That applies to females as well, in case that needed to be explained.<\/p>\n

This client was telling me that she was baby sitting for friends of hers, and the baby started crying, as babies are known to do. She didn’t know what to do for it, she tried this and she tried that with no luck, but then without a thought, she began to sing to the baby, and it worked. Singing is not something she’s prone to do. “I never sing” she told me. That little bundle of joy obviously needed comforting and singing was the key to calming the baby. My client learned what I’ve known for years- singing makes us happy and you probably figured out that I’ve pretty much always got a song running in my head as background music to my life.<\/p>\n

All of this is my clumsy and roundabout way of working real estate and singing into one post so I can share a song I’ve been singing lately. It’s campy, it’s tongue-in-cheek, it’s awesome in its goofiness. If you are a newly minted Gleek<\/a>, it’s okay to sing loudly and badly, as all the most fun show tunes seem designed for that very purpose. I’ve been accused of having a sense of humor and for not taking things too seriously, so it makes sense that for me, singing a show tune like this is as close as I ever get to an affirmation. “Money flows to me like a river.” Yeah, okay, but I’d much rather sing at the top of my lungs:<\/p>\n

“I hear the sound of good
\nSolid judgment whenever you talk.<\/p>\n

Yet, there’s the bold, brave spring
\nOf the tiger that quickens your walk.
\n(roar, Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of this is my clumsy and roundabout way of working real estate and singing into one post so I can share a song I’ve been singing lately. It’s campy, it’s tongue-in-cheek, it’s awesome in its goofiness. If you are a newly minted Gleek, it’s okay to sing loudly and badly, as all the most fun show tunes seem designed for that very purpose. I’ve been accused of having a sense of humor and for not taking things too seriously, so it makes sense that for me, singing a show tune like this is as close as I ever get to an affirmation. “Money flows to me like a river.” Yeah, okay, but I’d much rather sing at the top of my lungs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11999,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11999\/the-desperation-waltz\/","url_meta":{"origin":11895,"position":0},"title":"The Desperation Waltz","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie story \"Hey, Tommy,\" Jimmy said without looking up from the newspaper he had spread out on the bar, \"what's Reubenesque mean again?\" \"Jeesh! 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