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Tag, I Am It ... Meme'd!

Brendan King meme'd me a couple of days ago. He shared some personal tidbits about himself. Jay Thompson of Phoenix meme'd him. Here's how it works, according to Jay: “Someone with too much time on their hands thinks up some question (typically personal) and starts a post, “tagging” others to do the same, and it flies across the Internet. Before you know it, you’ve found out more about some people than you probably want to know…” 

And then Brendan tagged me!

Here are the rules for this one: 

(1) List 7 things about yourself, (2) Tag 7 people to do the meme on themselves including a link to their sites.

1. I am a proud Blogaholic and I find this whole "meme" business very attractive because I LOVE lists, especially viral lists. I wrote a Be/Do/Have List for My Lifetime just this week. I love Web 2.0 and social networking and I am working on a huge Web 2.0 share initiative you will hear about soon.
2. I am a New Jersey girl. I was born in Jersey City and grew up in Paramus. I have wonderful memories of educational adventures with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark and the Sisters of Charity.
3. I had my first weekly newspaper column when I was 15 years old in The Paramus (NH) Post. As an adult I worked in Manhattan for years as a magazine editor and writer before I went to Pennsylvania in 1985 and became a REALTOR.
4. I have been married for almost 32 years ... we have two sons. Jens Holger Thorsen, nearing 30, is married to a wonderful young lady and he is a partner in an Employee Benefits company in Central PA. His little brother, Andreas Holger, 27, is an engineer in Columbus, OH.
5. I am 75% Polish and 25% Irish. I have NEVER learned how to polka. How embarrasssing is that? To be SO Polish and not know how to polka?
6. I love to make bread  and soup. Every kind of bread and every kind of soup. And I like to cook for a crowd, so I never make fewer than six loaves of bread at a time and I never make less than two or three gallons of soup at a time.
7. I am going to become a ferocious advocate about the foreclosure crisis in 2008.

Tag, you're it! Joeann Fossland, Amy Chorew, Karen Kay, Justin Farrow, Jessica Swesey, Byron Van Arsdale, Al Heavens

TheREALTYgram Blogger Is Three Years Old

I am very happy to visit these pages on the third anniversary of my first blog. Since my next visit is The Fat Lady Blog, I am going to celebrate with a no-cal treat ... a visit to some of my favorite blog posts:

The Day the DOJ Came to Visit

Bleeding Edge Journalism

Chalkboard Whore Lesson -- Bankruptcy Bill

FSBO Open House Brawl (with help from the Property Grunt)

Pre-Katrina Photos in the French Quarter

Heavenly Deed Transfer

Coorrupt Mortgage Lender Sonnet

My First Thoughts About RealTown Blogs (July 2005)

Genesis of a Blog that Has Changed My Life

Blogging About an Event that Changed My Life

No Blogger Left Behind - Develop a Blog Business Plan

INVITATION: First Class FREE You can sign up here

Join us for a Webinar on January 16 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/558575420 What exactly is a blog? We will talk about The Anatomy of a Blog, Different Blog Platforms, and How Blogging Fits Into A Real Estate Agent's Overall Web Strategy. Title: No Blogger Left Behind -- Develop a Blog Business Plan Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer

The Eyes Have It

Magic in Manhattan. Aussie lassie and soon-to-be-RealTown-Blogger Finn Hanna meets Uber Blogger Kevin Boer.

Craig Newmark Weighs In On ObamaAt Inman Real Estate Connect Confab

Craig Newmark is sporting a new Obama lapel pin at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in New York City. He waxed melancholy about the days when there was a rule of law and Bill of Rights in the United States. Some of us are old enough to remember those days.

Blogs Are Word Farms - We Grow As We Nurture

The first day of a New Year ... the first blog post of a New Year ... I have already posted my first 2008 post on Twitter. I am remembering a linguistic shift that I made about 13 months ago here and on the Web Women Giving Circle blog. I am going to remain on that track this year and use words that nurture and feed the good energy that abounds ... this is a year that is full of promise on many levels. Random synonyms:

alleviation, amusement, animation, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, delectation, delight, diversion, ecstasy, elation, exaltation, exultation, exulting, felicity, festivity, frolic, fruition, gaiety, gem, gladness, glee, good humor, gratification, hilarity, humor, indulgence, jewel, jubilance, liveliness, luxury, merriment, mirth, pleasure, pride, prize, rapture, ravishment, refreshment, regalement, rejoicing, revelry, satisfaction, solace, sport, transport, treasure, treat, wonderadulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, case*, cherishing, crash, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, liking, lust, mad for, mash, partiality, pash, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot, taste, tenderness, the hots, weakness, wild for*, worship, yearning, zeal,aim, aspiration, desire, dream, end, enterprise, goal, hope, intent, mark, objective, purpose, target, wish