{"id":2456,"date":"2007-12-31T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2008-01-01T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T14:36:52","slug":"if-a-dog-looks-into-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2456\/if-a-dog-looks-into-a-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"If a dog looks into a mirror…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight or so hours and counting until the\u00a0Time Square ball descends\u00a0for the 51st time\u00a0during this writer’s mortally toiled watch; so,\u00a0barring any\u00a0behemothic\u00a0transpiration \u00a0between now and the instant I press the Publish<\/em> button, my\u00a0work for 2007, as a blogger, is done. I’ve tossed it around mentally for a day or two\u00a0and\u00a0concluded that I do in fact, have a thing or two left to say before the expiration dates on these few, lingering thoughts—well, expire; a couple\u00a0smart snippets, perhaps worthy of a final comment or two, before the twelfth dong of the gong bongs eternal, and I kiss whomever is standing next to me–within reason, goodyear.\u00a0And so I present to you this\u00a0year’s final\u00a0menu,\u00a0a\u00a0mulligan stew\u00a0of left-over thoughts and teasers straight from the mental ice box of my favorite mother’s favorite son: (okay, it’s another year end list.)<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Don’t buy any Christmas jewely advertised on TV\u00a0regardless of\u00a0how much the actress\u00a0acts<\/em> like\u00a0she’d<\/em> love to\u00a0own a quarter carat, diamond pendant necklace from Zales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2. Whilst everybody in my life welcomes a thoughtful gift and even my faithful dog enjoys human praise, it’s pretty\u00a0obvious from the looks on\u00a0their faces that they’d all<\/em> rather have the cash.<\/p>\n

3. The best answering machine message I heard all year was: …”If<\/strong> this is a courtesy call, leave a message and I’ll get back to you at my earliest convenience;… If<\/strong> this is a distress call, keep the message short and if I’m not in a worse place than you, I’ll try and help;…\u00a0If <\/strong>this is a booty call, stay on the line and someone will assist you shortly.”<\/em> (okay, I made it up and my wife wouldn’t let me put it on our machine.)<\/p>\n

4. I’m at a point in my life where I’m actually a little disappointed if I don’t get socks for Christmas.<\/p>\n

5. I’ve concluded that there’s no sense in trying to get back down to my fighting weight since nothing good ever came out of any fight I’ve ever been in, anyway.<\/p>\n

6. Don’t write a post about a one-armed girl <\/a>and expect to come away unscathed or get involved in a comment trading war<\/a>\u00a0unless\u00a0you too,\u00a0are prepared to quit <\/a>\u00a0the forum and flee Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight or so hours and counting until the\u00a0Time Square ball descends\u00a0for the 51st time\u00a0during this writer’s mortally toiled watch; so,\u00a0barring any\u00a0behemothic\u00a0transpiration \u00a0between now and the instant I press the Publish button, my\u00a0work for 2007, as a blogger, is done. I’ve tossed it around mentally for a day or two\u00a0and\u00a0concluded that I do in fact, have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7557,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7557\/a-few-thoughts-about-mortgages\/","url_meta":{"origin":2456,"position":0},"title":"A Few Thoughts About Mortgages…..","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"March 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I already sent an update out earlier in the week outlining what the Fed did and how it can\/will impact the economy and the mortgage markets, I\u2019m going to focus on a couple of other topics this time. 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