LOTS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THIS THANKSGIVING

It is the night before the eve of Thanksgiving and I have come home from food shopping, grabbed a bite to eat and as I was reading some emails from various people I had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude come over me. Now please understand, I , like everyone else, have been affected by the state of our economy. That said I must go on to tell you how grateful I am to be right where I am. Gone are the days of doing what I really do not want to do, playing with people I don't like, saying yes when I mean no and vice versa. I have absolutely wonderful people in my life. I have and continue to get absolutely GREAT clients! I love what I do professionally. I love buying and selling antiques as well as my real estate.

I am very grateful to be an American. I know that being an American is not the most popular thing to brag about right now in this world. I would like to tell you what I am proud of. It is very plain to see that our situation in this country is the result of much greed, self centeredness and a total lack of caring for other human beings. I do have every confidence though that our country and all its citizens will band together and work our way through this mess, learn our lessons and become better people for it. This is a result of a few, not the many.

I love the citizens of the United States. I love our diversity. I love that we can be who we are even if others don't like or understand who we are. What I really love is that when the chips are down it has been proven and it will bear true again that we will band together and find a way out of the mess we are in and support each other in doing so. There are lessons to be learned from these times. Each of us can contibute greatly to effect change. This challenge we are facing will strenthen us and help us to become very grateful for everything we have.

This is a time to support our newly elected president, whether we voted for him or not, as he has a long road ahead of him. Remember the total is as great as the sum of all its parts.

Please take the time to look around you and see where you can help. It is sooo rewarding. Giving really feels much better than taking. Give a smile as it doesn't cost a cent and makes people feel like a million.

I want to take the time to thank all my clients. You have enabled me to pay my mortgage, buy food for my family, you all are truly my angels. Many of you are my friends now and we break bread together. I am very grateful you came into my life.

A WONDERFUL,SAFE, HAPPY HOLIDAY TO ALL!

Enough with these car companies already!!!

I am really getting sick of all this bail out baloney! So let me get this right. Your a company and you have all these grandiose ideas, spend lots of money creating this image so people feel the need to buy this product. Pay no attention to places like Europe and Japan who have been making products like yours that are much more efficient, better made etc. You pay your top guys ridiculous amounts of money and do not heed the warnings of many people to change and you want my tax dollars to reward you rather than have natural consequences for your actions BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE FAILING----

WRONG BOZO BREATH!!!!!


If anything, we should be spending our tax dollars to help in placing the workers in other jobs helping them with unemployment money until they find other jobs, maybe retraining them. Lets not forget the working man. BUT THE BOZOS NEED TO HAVE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES



NO BAIL OUTS! THAT IS WHAT BANKRUPTCY LAW IS ABOUT. I AM SICK OF REWARDING GREED!

Of course we all can benefit from taking our own inventory and making changes to contribute to the change we need in our country to survive. But make no mistake we are not that great that we will survive this. Great civilizations have gone before us and fallen flat on their you know whats. Rome fell, Egypt fell. What makes us think we won't.

I, myself am taking this opportunity to take my own inventory and see where I have contributed to this mess and CHANGE!!! I absolutely love my country and the people in it. I want to see it evolve and grow and live. Let's do our part, each of us in whatever small or large way .

BUT DO NOT REWARD GREED!!!!!!!

Hudson Valley Angels

Waking up in pain in the middle of the night is never any fun. I woke up two nights ago with horrible pain in my tooth. Of course that pain never comes at the right time which would be at 8:30am so you could call your dentist, jump in the car and be there in a few minutes for them to access your pain and do something to help you. It always comes in the middle of the night. So, many hours later I call my dentist, MaryAnn Salcetti, in Wappinger Falls(297-4236) and just like the angel that she and her staff are, they tell me to rush right over. I get in my car and cry all the way over there as I am sure I am never NOT going to have this pain(I am a terrible baby when it comes to pain). My dentist accesses my situation and determines I need a root canal done. She makes a phone call, gets off the phone and hands me an address. That easily????? I get back in my car and drive to the address and walk in to this lovely office with wonderful front desk staff. I wait for just minutes and am wisked to the back office where two dentists are working on patients. The dental asst assures me that the dentist will be done and will squeeze me in between her two patients. She takes an xray and goes out of her way to make me comfortable. Within a couple of minutes this sweetheart of a woman walks in and proceeds to explain what she will do and what I can expect. She and her assistant work together in perfect precision and before you know it I am done. Did I mention that they offered to cream my hands and have them rest in this heated bag and offered head phones to listen to relaxing music. I must tell you that as I write about the quality of life in our Hudson Valley, time must be taken to praise these wonderful women of the Assogna Endodontic Specialty Group @ 46 Fox Street in Poughkeepsie NY. 845-473-3636. You would have thought I had a long standing appt. and knew them for years with the wonderful way they treated me. I must also mention that if it were not for my dentist Maryann Salcetti I probably would have had to wait. I am blessed. I love our Hudson Valley and the wonderful people thereof.

NEW LISTING IN NEW PALTZ I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT

I wanted to tell you about a new listing I have just put on the market. It is a two family with a great four bedroom 1 & 11/2 baths with eat in kitchen, dining room, living room with brand new gas fireplace. There is a nice deck off the dining room through the sliding glass doors. This home has a one bedroom apartment with a seperate entrance. The great thing about the apt is it pays off approx. $110,000 at todays rate for the purchaser with good credit. This home is in the village of New Paltz so you will enjoy the benefits of municipal water and sewer. So view the virtual tour and see if the tush matches the seat! If it doesn't feel free to sign up with me and creat a listing alert. Great way to shop. Just put in your parameters to include price range, area, bedrooms, baths etc. and every time a brand new listing comes on the market that matches your criteria, the listing will be emailed to you.

Happy home to you,
Sandy

Veterans day remembered

As I was a teenager of the 60's, Veterans Day is very special to me as many of my close friends that I grew up with, knew and loved went to Vietnam and many did not return. That war was very personal to me and taught me to respect the many men and women who came before that war and who fight for us today.

I stopped at my office today to drop off papers to our support staff. For most of the day I had been thinking of the friends I lost and the family and friends who have served in the military and who currently serve in the military. The woman who helps all of us in our office as our support staff person was there and she came up to me to show me the card she sent to one of our co workers in the office who she had come to find out was a Vietnam vet. The card was wonderful and Cindy told me how emotional our co worker had gotten over receiving the card which simply and eloquently thanked him for fighting for us.

I write this blog to specifically point out the quality of life here in the Hudson Valley. This beautiful gesture is just one part.

I love where I live. I love where I work. I love the people of the Hudson Valley.