Before the market hiccuped I had considered getting my realty license because I love the idea of home ownership. I am not good at selling though so I never went through with it. I was watching a show about flipping houses. This house was close to $300,000 in California.

It wasn’t even classified as a fixer upper, I would have voted it “most likely to be condemned”. There really weren’t even any exterior walls which allowed hundreds of pigeons to take up residence. The realtor was trying to talk about the potential when a homeless guy living in the house yelled at the camera crew to be quiet because he was trying to sleep. The house flipping guy actually bought the house & made money off it. He had plenty of problems, like a seemingly intoxicated man coming up and yelling at him during the middle of the day about how he was driving prices up. That must be some real estate agent.

Usually I learn tons of “what not to do in a marriage” lesson from the TV. I haven’t been watching a lot of bridal shows because I’m sick of the “It’s my day” mentality. I understand that brides want to look their best, take weight loss pills and have a pretty dress. That is fine, but they don’t seem to see how their excessive spending and anger effects other people & they don’t really care. I tuned into Wedding Day Saturday morning because that show doesn’t seem to be as saturated with bridezillas.

The couple had received a beautiful wedding reception that their friends and family had help build. The bride remarked that their marriage was a jumping off point & said something like “The impact we can make on the world is going to be so much bigger together then it ever was apart.” That says a lot about relationships and about what a marriage should really be focused on.

Ever since I read the book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” I’ve wondered about the ways that I effect people without knowing it. In the book a small child chasing a baseball causes a car accident without ever noticing. Seeing how the chain of events leads to changing lives made me want to go buy cheap health insurance and drive extra carefully. The curious Case of Benjamin Button touched on this idea as well.

A chain reaction was also apparent in a recent Family Jewels episode. Shannon & her sister Tracy unknowingly ruined someone’s wedding. Tracy fell asleep with the bathtub on causing a flood. The flood leaked down into the bottom room ruining a bride’s wedding dress. The sisters heard the maintenance people talking about it and ran away to a business meeting on a golf course. Gene had failed to make it clear that his wife was conducting the meeting instead of himself so they had planned on golfing when the girls had little to no experience. The sisters hit someone in the head with a golf ball and ran over a stranger with a golf cart. The stranger sprained his ankle & was coincidentally unable to go to work the next day. He was the preacher at the dress-less bride’s wedding. The sisters again met the bride when she was crying in the bathroom at her rehearsal dinner. Shannon became an ordained minister and a new dress was found. I don’t know if it was all setup. Either way when I get married I’m definitely going to ask if the Tweed sisters are in town first.