Archives for October 2008

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

Well, I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, never forget
These images

No

Well, I’d never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you’re gone and I’m haunted
And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my life?
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should have known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

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These are the lyrics from the song Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy. Great, great song. Very sad, but the lyrics read like poetry. Can’t ask for more than that.

I realized something today. I have been trying to mold this blog into something interesting, useful, profitable, etc. But what I ended up doing was turning it into something I didn’t even recognize. What I had always intended for it to be was a place for me to record my thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes. A place to just vent my frustrations or wish for luck. My own little spot on this frighteningly large and overwhelming web of words. No matter what you do, there is always going to be someone with a better, faster, stronger site. So I’m going back to what it was, just a place for me. Because sometimes you look around and realize that you have been spending so much time trying to keep up with everyone else, listening, helping, supporting, that you forgot to be true to the one thing that really matters, your own heart. This is my heart and I am laying it out here for no one else but me.

Positive news on the real estate front?

According to USAToday, pending sales of existing homes unexpectedly jumped in August to the highest level in more than a year. The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in June, rose 7.4% in August to 93.4 from an updwardly revised index of 87.0 in July.

A major unknown is how the worldwide financial crisis and economic slump will affect the housing market.

Despite numerous efforts by the Federal Reserve to encourage banks to lend more, lenders have kept tight reins on mortgage lending, and average rates on 30-year mortgages have remained over 6% for most of the year.

The latest effort by the central bank came Wednesday, when the Fed and six other major central banks around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown.

There’s no guarantee, though, that mortgage rates will match the Fed’s cut.

That’s because long-term interest rates, which influence 30-year mortgages, don’t always move in sync with the Fed’s action, which lowered the interest rate banks charge each other on overnight loans.

However, the Fed action will reduce borrowing costs almost immediately for U.S. bank customers whose home equity and other floating-rate loans are tied to the prime interest rate. Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banks cut their prime rate by half a point to 4.5% after the Fed announcement.

It appears that Boston’s biggest property owner is going green. According to this recent Boston Globe article, Equity Office Properties Trust, which owns 20 Boston buildings, is “outfitting its buildings with features ranging from energy-saving heating and cooling units to new bike racks as part of a multimillion-dollar effort to stamp its buildings with the green label.”