If only I could use this power for good...

Sell low, buy high. That's my family motto. My mom had Dime Saving Bank stocks for 30 years. She bought at $19 and finally gave up and sold at $17 after all that time. A month later the stock rose to $25.

When my mom passed, she left me a nice inheritance and for the first time in our lives, we had money to invest. The market had done gangbusters for decades. We invested in the Fall of 2000. Next year 9/11 happened and everything took a nose dive. It took 7 years to ALMOST recover to our initial principle which we quickly got out of the market.

And so the curse continued...

You can't go wrong with real estate! Couldn't argue with the logic. Our Maine house was now worth way more than we paid for it after 20 years and the day we were moving a New York retired cop offered us 30,000 less than we were asking and we said no, thinking we would surely get our price. That was October of '07. We moved out and bought a house in Georgia with savings and the inheritance. We got it at what we thought was a good price and were proud that we didn't have to carry a mortgage. A good investment with our nest egg.

September of '08, the greedy bast**ds of finance plotted against the great masses of EVERYONE else to crash our houses around our ears. So where's my freaking bailout now that our OWN money, not some bank's, OUR OWN money, with which we always tried to be fiscally responsible, was, for a second time, torn away from us by the fat cats. Twenty friggin' years in Maine and if we had waited one more year, we could have gotten the bargain of our lives on a home.

So now we lost more than 1/3 of our own money on our new home, can't sell our Maine home for anything remotely NEAR what the cop offered that day.

So you can't go wrong with real estate... that is until I get there.

We moved to Georgia in Fall of '07. In the Spring of '08 we got hit with one of those 50 year tornadoes. "Ain't never had one of them round these parts for decades!"
Yeah, I'm here now, just you wait and see!!

So far, in just under 4 years, we've had the worst drought on record, the worst flooding on record, hail, snow, felt the recent earthquake...

Tomorrow's Saturday. What shall it be? Toads, boils or locusts... I just can't choose...

Is is just me or shouldn't there be a way to use this power for good. Maybe I should buy stock in companies that I hate and bring them all to their knees!!

I've gained so much weight that, by now, I should be too big to fail!!

A sh*t-storm seems to follow me wherever I go, so why not let it rain on someone else for a change?

To bite or not to bite... no question!

Saw 'Fright Night"!! Bloody good fun without one sparkly, vegetarian vampire in sight!

Is it just me, or does a non-sucking child of the night simply lose all the sexy? Like Damon Salvatore from Vampire Diaries said... "You're dead, dude. Get over it."