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Work from home? Live abroad

May 18, 2007 by Tricia

You know, due to my illness, I’ve been stuck at home for almost a year and a half now. Since I stopped getting sick pay from my workplace almost a year ago I’ve had to find a way to bring in some money so that we could continue to own our lovely home and pay all of our bills.

It’s been hard, but for those of you who have been reading this blog you know that I’ve managed to do quite well as far as creating an income that we can live off of through the internet. I’m at the point now that I think I’m actually making more than I did when I worked as an ER nurse.

I know that several of the people who read my blog have also found ways to make income from the internet. Either through creating their own businesses or doing work here and there for a multitude of internet related companies.

Have you ever thought of Living Abroad? I mean, if you are making a great income from work that you do through home, or your home based business there’s no reason that you can’t do it from any place in the world. Is there? Heck, if you choose to move to the right country you could even be making a tax free income and thus have even more money to live off of. This is beginning to sound more and more appealing isn’t it?

Where would you go if you decided to pack it all up and work from home?

I know that I’d probably enjoy living and working in an exotic location. Someplace that was fairly warm year round, and in my case it would also have to have a decent health care system since I have Crohn’s disease. Hmmm Maybe a country such as Australia or Belize would work for me.

Naturally if I were really going to pack up and move to an exotic local I’d likely end up having to buy a property abroad as well. At this point, we’d have to either sell the home we are living in now, or rent it out in order to do this, but it’s a thought isn’t it?

I’ve never been to visit Australia or Belize, but the thought of being able to work from home in one of those locations is very appealing. If we could manage it, I’d try to get a home close to the ocean and beach. Hey, since I work with my computer alone, I could perhaps even sit on the beach each day as I got my work done. Oh that’d be so nice.

I’d miss our Canadian Spring and Autumn because I love watching how the seasons change here, but I don’t think I’d miss our cold, cold winters all that much.

If you work from home, have an e-business, or have a dream of being able to work from home where would you want to live and why?

If the idea of living abroad and working from home is appealing you should visit the Living and Working Abroad Resource website that got me thinking of living in an exotic local. You’ll find articles discussing immigration laws, health care, advantages of living or retiring in other Countries and a whole lot more.

Do visit the site. It’s good to dream, and you never know, by reading the Living and Working Abroad Resource website you may find a way to make your dreams a reality.





Filed Under: Culture, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, Make Money, Moving or Organizing, Sales and Marketing, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: Australia, Belize, crohns, e business, France, Health and Fitness, health care, Health Fitness and Beauty, home based business, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Live abroad, live in exotic location, Living and Working Abroad, pain, Portugal, Shelter off shore, shelteroffshore.com, Spain, tax free income, work anywhere, work on internet, working abroad resource

Chris was noticed by hospital bigwigs

May 17, 2007 by Tricia

Chris had a long long day at work yesterday. He didn’t sleep well that night, and then he got up early for his 7:30 a.m. shift at the hospital. He was only supposed to work until 3:30 p.m., but one of the guys that he works with put his back out early in the morning and Chris ended up working twice as hard through the day, and worked until 7:30 p.m. to cover part of the other guys shift as well.

Needless to say he was pretty tired when he got home last night. He’d been supposed to work another 7:30 a.m. shift this morning, but since he’d put in such long hours yesterday he was told that he could come in sometime around 9 a.m. instead. He works in the OR recovery room and I guess they didn’t expect their first patient to arrive until about 8:30 a.m. so that worked out great for Chris. Of course, since he was so tired from his almost sleepless night the night before and his long work hours he slept very well last night. Hopefully he doesn’t have to work overtime today too.

The only problem was that he thought it was Friday when he got up this morning. Don’t you just hate that when you get confused about what day it is?

As Chris was leaving for work this morning he told me that he was the topic of discussion at a big hospital meeting earlier in the week. Apparently many of the doctors – heads of departments, as well as Nursing department heads and other people high in management had a meeting. I don’t know what the meeting was about, but Chris was told by his manager and some other nurses that had attended the meeting that he was discussed for about 20 minutes!

Apparently they were discussing how good he is with patients and how he can easily build a rapport with patients and their friends and relatives, setting them at ease easily. Maybe they are going to use the “Chris Model” to inspire other hospital employees to be more compassionate towards patients and visitors?

I’m so proud of him! His kind nature has always stood out to people, but now it seems that he might be getting some official recognition for it.

Chris and I are a lot alike in that we are both really nice people. Yeah, I know you’ll just have to take my word for it that I am a kind person. LOL I haven’t been able to work in the ER for close to a year and a half due to my illness, but I too always stood out and got some recognition for my kindness to patients, families and co-workers too.

We’re hoping to attend the Blog World Expo, and P0stieCon convention in Las Vegas in November. If any of you are attending, or live in the Las Vegas area maybe we’ll get to meet you. If we do meet you’ll be able to judge for yourselves if Chris and I really are as nice as I say we are. LOL

Filed Under: Employment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Nursing Tagged With: blog, Blog World expo, blogging convention, Chris, compasionate, crohns, doctor, employee, ER, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hospital, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, kind person, long hours, nature, no sleep, nurse, Nursing, pain, recognized, work overtime

Spring beauty

May 16, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Orange Tulip

Bright as a flame, as lovely as a sunset – this gorgeous orange Toronto tulip can be found blooming in my garden. It’s delicate, luscious, and bold all at once.

How does nature manage to create such beauty?

Every time I look out at my garden, or walk out into the yard and peer down at what has changed that day by growing, developing a bud or blooming I’m always amazed.

Filed Under: Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: beautiful, beauty, bloom, bold, delicate, garden, nature, Orange, orange tulip, photo, photos, plants, sunset, tulip, Wordless Wednesday

Underwear from Down Under

May 16, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday Chris and I went on a big shopping spree, but perhaps we didn’t need to buy as much as we did in a department store. I was just looking at a site called DUGG – which is short for Down Under Guys Gear – and they sell all kinds of mens underwear, accessories and clothing.

I probably shouldn’t be saying this online, but that’s one thing we didn’t buy yesterday that we probably should have. I’m pretty sure that Chris could use some new underwear.

He hasn’t purchased underwear in years! By that I do not mean that he’s been wearing the same old briefs over and over again for years. No, I mean his mommy still gives him underwear as a gift. It’s one thing we can always count on – He gets underwear at Christmas and birthdays and sometimes just for the heck of it. Me – I always seem to get scented candles – go figure.

Visit the site to see all the different styles of underwear that you can buy. You can find everything from Briefs, trunks, hipsters, g-strings, jockstraps, tops and singlets, swimwear, sleepwear, socks and boxers. There are several well known name brands to choose from too – so if you have a favorite brand you’ll probably find it there.

The company is based in Australia, but you can tell immediately that they sell world wide. How do I know that? Well I’m in Canada and the site automatically knew where I was located so it showed me the prices in Canadian dollars. That’s a cool site feature. I also knew that they shipped worldwide because it actually says that at the bottom of every page I visited. DUGG offers free shipping on domestic orders over $50, and international orders over $80. If you become a member of the site and contact them before you make your second purchase you’ll get an ongoing 5% discount as well.

If you know a guy who needs some nice new underwear go and visit DUGG.

Filed Under: Fashion, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Shopping Tagged With: boxers, Briefs, Down Under Guys Gear, DUGG, g strings, hipsters, Home and Lifestyle, international delivery, jockstraps, Mens underwear, Shopping, sleepwear, socks, swimwear, tops and singlets, trunks

Our home reno project du jour

May 16, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to get into that renovation mode again. Chris and I have been working on our house since the very first day that we got it. On the second day in our home we were taking out all of the wall to wall carpeting and knocking down three of the walls that sectioned off the living room dining room. We mean business when we get busy renovating!

A few weeks ago I bought a new domain that I might move my gardening blog over to at some point. Whether I do or don’t it’s going to be a Home and Garden blog and I’ll be talking about decor, interior design, home renovation as well as my love of gardening on that site. I haven’t done a thing with it but it will be located at homeandgardendiva.com.

We’ve taken photos of our projects as we’ve been doing them – again from day one. So I’m sure I’ll have lots of photos of our work on the new site. You’ve got to see our living room and dining room walls! I did them myself in Venetian plaster. I worked 18 hours a day for three weeks straight to finish 600 square feet of wall in a tri color venetian plaster of my own mix.

The walls are a lovely shade of yellow with light yellow and off white mixed in. Venetian plaster looks quite a bit like marble and it’s got a sheen to it from all the hand polishing I did when I did the job. I don’t have any photos on this computer or in my flickr account that do it justice right now. I’ll have to take some tomorrow and possibly add them to this post. However, it has a real Mediterranean or European feel to it like that of the Tuscany Villas. It’s beautiful.

The furniture in our Dining room is all antique, and our living room has a much more modern tech feel with our HDTV and leather couches and recliner. The walls pull it all together and make it look amazing. All we have to do in the room now is get the molding and our beautiful tin ceiling up!

Honest, I think that when I do eventually show you guys photos of our living room / dining room you’ll love it. The styles that I’ve put together are all different and I’m sure that it might not sound like it goes together as well as I’m telling you that it does, but just you wait. I’ll show you photos one day and you’ll see what I mean.

All we have to do is finish this job! I’m glad I’m starting to get into the mood to do it again. Oh and I’ve come up with a bribe for Chris too. He really wants to get a very expensive piece of equipment for his guitar. It’s about $500 but it has to be install into his guitar. It’s a special pick up if you want to know. His acoustic guitar does have a nice pick up but he wants to replace it with this deluxe one and put the old pick up in another guitar – another installation charge! I figure it will cost about $700 bucks to get this all done. My deal with him is that if he does go ahead and get this for his guitar we have to get started on our living room dining room project again – and get it done by sometime this summer. I think it’ll work.

Filed Under: Decor, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Life with Chris Tagged With: antique furniture, Decor, design, DIY, home, home reno project, Home Renovation, modern furniture, molding, remodeling, renovate, renovation, Shopping, tin ceiling, tuscany, Venetian plaster

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