Words left unsaid - funny story

I had a "funny" experience earlier this week and thought I'd share it. Now I've only been married for 5 months, but my wife feared I was drawing our relation to a close after a slight whoops on my behalf. No need to panic, as we couldn't be happier, but see if you find this as funny as I do...

My wife is a spectacular cook and decided to cook an interesting and surprisingly healthy casserole last weekend. It's comprised of many seasonal items including kale, potatoes and onions and is topped off with turkey kielbasa and Munster cheese. Now it's also fairly hearty so we figured we'd spread it out over a number of meals during the week. I had casserole for dinner Monday and Wednesday and doubled up for lunch and dinner Tuesday and Thursday.

With that said, by Thursday at lunch I was quickly realizing that I had had my fill of casserole so I decided to let my wife know. It happened to be lunch time so I shot her a message over GCHAT (GMAILS's web-based chat function). I began with "I love you sweetie," and continued with "but I can't do this any more." Before I could type "the casserole is getting the best of me" or something of the like, my boss dropped by with a major fire (alarm) that required immediate attention. I quickly closed my chat window and began tackling the task at hand. Now my wife called a few minutes later and I asked if I could call her back. She said "fine," and seemed a bit perturbed, but I blazed on thinking she's just having a rough day. I finally drew the issue to the end and call Juls, my wife, and it went a bit like this:

"Hi." -Me
"What do you mean you can't do this anymore?!" -Juls
"What are you talking about?" -Me
"You sent me a message that said 'You can't do this anymore' then immediately put up a busy message'." -Juls
"I signed off a few minutes ago, but I was talking about the casserole." -Me
"What?!" -Juls [Turns out I had left my computer signed on at home, so Juls thought I was just ignoring her. That coupled with the call I just blew off didn't help.]
"Yeah, I can't eat the casserole any more. After eating eating it all week, it's getting the best of me." -Me
"You idiot!" -Juls
"Did I not add the part about the casserole?" -Me [This is when I begin laughing]
"No! Do you think this is funny?!" -Julia
"I'm sorry, I had to work on something with the boss and closed the window immediately." -Me [Still laughing]
"Here I am thinking you're calling things off on GCHAT?!" - Julia

We eventually brought the conversation to a close and continued checking in during the afternoon. Juls eventually began to see the humor in it and I began to sympathize with her concern. I ended up (voluntarily) finishing the casserole when she got home after work and by the end of the evening we were back to our good old selves. We even attended our local real estate investor association (REIA) meeting and learned a lot about tax strategies, but I couldn't help but chuckle about the situation the whole time.

As a result of the events I got the chance to reflect on and remind myself of a few things:
1. If you are going to say something slightly stupid, at least finish you're thought.
2. I plan to be happily married for the rest of my life, but if any of you see relationships drawing to a close, natural or not, at least make every effort to speak to the person. I'm no modern day Shakespeare and find it's very hard to convey any true feelings through the written word. Email may be better than a casual web based chat, but regardless, bring things to a close the best way you can for both of your sake aka. not GCHAT.
3. Always see the humor in things and be appreciative of what you have. My wife is a very lovely and fortunately forgiving person. After days like this, I'm glad we can look back and laugh for many years to come.

With that said, hope you have a great week and take care.

[We're always looking for new real estate -http://www.sunsetmaplegroup.com/]

New day - New blog

So I figured I'd give this blogging thing a shot. It's an interesting time in my life, having recently been married to my lovely and beautiful wife Julia. We're both juggling a full time jobs, striving to become successful entrepreneurs and I am tracking to become an accomplished distance athlete. My wife is a better runner than I am, but we'll see what the future holds. Any time we have left we spend with our great dog and cat and our good family and friends.

With that said, I'm finally feeling grounded and look forward to what 2010 will bring. I've set two major goals for the year. 1. Complete a half ironman triathlon and 2. Pour the rest of my free time into real estate. Real estate is our path to financial freedom and my wife and I founded The Sunset Maple Group (http://www.sunsetmaplegroup.com/) to help carry out that mission. We know we'll be great and we can't wait to grow. Someday we'll even retire from our J-O-B's and will live the good life!

Our primary focus right now is on two type of real estate deals, wholesales and lease options. In the near future we will be looking to rehab and buy and hold . If you ever have any questions about real estate or know anyone looking to sell a property, let us know. It's incredibly interesting and we're happy to help!

On that note, I draw a close to my first entry and look forward to checking back soon. Have a great day!