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  Buttons of Hope

  Posted on May 12, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet We are always looking for ways to help out, and here is a simple one. Pepsi’s “Good Idea” was created to fund projects created to benefit others. My friend Michael Gibbons has entered his project “Buttons of Hope” and we are hoping everyone will vote. This explains a bit about it (from the site): [...]

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  Big Stones

  Posted on May 4, 2010 by Diane in 4 real estate, 5 life, social media
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  Tweet from my other blog I think that the story that follows is even more important today, especially since I am helping agents at Towne & Country, Realtors to find their way in New/Social media. Inevitably the question that all people wonder is, “So if we do all of this great stuff, when are we [...]

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  Head and heart

  Posted on April 4, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet I am sitting here listening to the spring peepers singing love songs to each other, tired. It was a really sweet day, one of those ones that you bookmark and keep coming back to over and over. Jenny opened her candy and went over to her dad’s for a little while. Then I picked [...]

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  The Duck Tours factor

  Posted on March 31, 2010 by Diane in 5 life, humor
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  Tweet We have had a wet March. Apparently it is one of the wettest since they began recording rainfall amounts, and there has been quite a bit of flooding. On my way to pick up my daughter at school, I saw a sign “Road Closed” and below it, in typical New England fashion, the caveat [...]

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  Budgeting time

  Posted on March 28, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet My poor little neglected blog. I’ve been crazy-busy lately. I read somewhere that busy-ness grows to fill your days, and that seems true. It’s the same as money- it doesn’t matter how much you have, it’s never enough. Have you ever heard of someone turning down a raise, unless there was a potentially bigger [...]

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  Your call cannot be completed as dialed

  Posted on February 25, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet Today I was making a list of Trusted Business Partners for Towne & Country- the TCTP list. The purpose of this list is multi-fold: should a client request some names, these could be given. If we need a guest blogger, this would be the pool we would ask first. If we have a question, [...]

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  Where the Wild Things Are

  Posted on February 7, 2010 by Diane in 5 life, living
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  Tweet The subject line of the email read: Cialis_Viagra_Ritalin__Percocet__Adderall!!! It’s as if they wanted to get my attention one way or the other. Attention. Two of my children take medication for ADHD. I was thinking back to the days before they did, back when the kids were tiny. Bedtimes were an absolute horror show, because [...]

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  Happy Valentine’s Day!

  Posted on January 30, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet – or are you celebrating like the rest of us? Valentine’s Day on the surface seems like such a good idea. Real estate or social media questions? Find me …On Facebook where you can access a home search …All of my online links …On LinkedIn …Email me at diane@realtyman.com …or call 978-840-4014

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  repost: The Myth of Multitasking – How to Break an Unproductive Habit | The BridgeMaker

  Posted on January 24, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet …we end up losing a lot of time. Also, when we switch back to a task, we have to recap what we’ve just been doing, and so ‘multitasking’ involves redundancy. Dave Crenshaw, business coach and author of The Myth of Multitasking, has explored the phenomenon extensively, and writes, ‘You actually take much longer to [...]

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  Rants: The Top 8 Tongues Stuck To Frozen Poles | Burbia.com – StumbleUpon

  Posted on January 22, 2010 by Diane in 5 life
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  Tweet The Top 8 Tongues Stuck To Frozen Poles By Steve Levenstein Ah yes, it’s that time of year again. The “silly season” doesn’t really shift into high gear until the temperature drops and the triple dog daring begins. “The what?”, you ask? Well, for those of you who’ve never watched that 1983 holiday gem [...]

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