Hello everyone. If you read my last post you saw how I was expressing the importance of maintaining balance in our busy lives. Well, yesterday was a day I should have heeded my own advice! As I also mentioned in my previous post, we have been trying to sell our home since November of 2010 and it's quite a challenge to say the least. It is definitely a buyer's market. The latest update on the house is a perspective buyer came to see our home this past Sunday. She spent more than an hour, yes an hour, inspecting every nook and cranny of the house. Wow! The realtor and ourselves were very excited. We started to think, "could this be the one to make an offer?" At this point our realtor is salivating at the mouth and said "I'm all over this buyer like white on rice!" Well, yesterday I received a call from the realtor telling me that this perspective buyer wants to see the house again today at 5pm, except this time it's her husband coming to see the house because he was not able to see it the first time. So I of course said "absolutely!" I received the call at 11am, started cleaning the house like a mad woman, picked up my children at 4pm, lectured them to not mess up the house, make dinner, and be ready to show the house again at 5pm. Mind you, I have our class to attend at 5:25pm that same day. "Whew!" I'm so exhausted at this point. It turns out the perspective buyer's husband calls the realtor at 5:10pm to say he can't make it and can we reschedule the showing of the house. AHHHH! I screamed , inside my head of course, and told our realtor "sure, another time would be just fine." So where do you think I was today at 5:30am? Yes, that's right, you guessed it! Bikram yoga!
Thanks for listening to my rantings. Until next time ...
Vocabulary:
balance - (Noun) mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgment, etc.
advice - (Noun) an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.
perspective - (Noun) a way of regarding situations, facts, etc, and judging their relative importance
realtor - (Noun) a person who is in the business of selling properties i.e house, apartment, building, etc.
absolutely! - (Interjection) used emphatically to express complete agreement or unqualified assent
lectured - (Verb) to rebuke or reprimand at some length
rantings - (Noun) talk in a wild or vehement way
Practice exercise:
Review the vocabulary words and definitions, then fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the vocabulary words.
I try to maintain ____________ when juggling many activities in one day so I can feel calm.
I should have ____________ to my teacher's instructions to avoid making mistakes in writing my book report.
It's important to have a positive ____________ when you are going through rough time.
Century 21 is a company that sells properties. A person who sells property is called a ____________.
When my parents asked me if I wanted to go to Disney World I said ___________.
My mother ___________ me on why I need to keep my clean.
Elizabeth was so angry when she heard her car was damaged, her neighbors could hear her loud and furious _________.
Grammar point:
When you want to express a certain feeling in your speech or writing where your audience can tell you are mad, excited, happy, or sad you use interjections. Interjections are words or phrases used to exclaim or protest or command. You can use an exclamation point (!) to show strong feelings or a comma (,) when the feeling is not as strong after an interjection. They sometimes can stand by themselves or found within a sentence.
Practice exercise:
In my post I tried to express my feelings about having a bad day. Read my post again and identify 5 interjections throughout the post. Afterward, write a paragraph, using interjections, on something you feel very passionate about.
Have fun and maybe this exercise could be a good way to release any stress you may have.
Go to the following websites to learn more about interjections:
Interjections
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/interjections.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4N27kbMdk
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