Friday Funny: Word of the Day

Liquidity:  When you look at your investments and wet your pants.  

Hat tip to Cliff Treat of The Talon Group.

Just a reminder that I will be at Seattle Real Estate Bar Camp today so I will not be posting mortgage rates.  If you would like a quote when I return, just provide me the information requested here or complete an on-line application (located under Favorite Links).

Meet Me and My Fellow Rain City Guide Contributers

Ardell, Jillayne and yours truly will at Crossroads in Bellevue at 6:30 pm on February 4, 2009.   I’m bummed that Dustin can’t make it (maybe he’ll suprise us).  And so far, fellow authors, Craig and Robbie, say they’ll be there too!

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It’s a causal meet-up that Ardell is organizing.  We’d love to meet our readers, commenters and fellow contributors.  For more information or to give us a heads up that you’re stopping by, please click here.

By the way, if you visit Rain City Guide’s About RCG page, you’ll see what the four of us are twittering–just like the photo above which was taken at Inman Connect in San Francisco last summer.  Sadly, RCG contributors rarely have the opportunity to pile on a bean bag chair together.

 

Christmas Cheer with Jingle Bell Rock

Jingle Bell Rock as sung by The Talon Group’s Choir (aka King County Sales Department).

EDITORS NOTE:  Sadly, when First American Title rolled up The Talon Group, they took down all of their videos… information and funny alike. 

Happy Birthday Mom!

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Mom with her girls a couple of years ago.  I'm in the flowered top with my two little sisters below.  

A Freakish Friday Funny

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Got Keiki?

I had no idea that I did until my neighbor spied the starts on one of my orchids.  "Keiki" is Hawiian for baby.  I feel so lucky!  I’m new to growing orchids…so we’ll see how this all turns out. 

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Remember these?

First, a commercial from Washington Mutual…where even Paul can get a home loan thanks to their flexible underwriting. 

Then…don’t worry, you can sleep knowing you have AIG…I won’t miss this annoying kid…but I did enjoy the laughing baby ads.

Wachovia currently is dancing around in talks with various banks right now hoping for a merger.  I wish I could have found the ad where the lady was talking about making her option ARM and how she liked to make her deferred interest payment when her dog was having puppies!  All I could find was this promo on a "fixed rate mortgage with payment options for wiggle room".

For my puppy-fix, here’s one more from WaMU.

Better late than never!

I’m just now starting to see signs of some ripe tomatoes from my garden pots.

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I’m sure they’ll be worth the wait.   We’ve had such a lackluster summer that these fellas will be lucky to ripen on the vine.