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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

Off to see the doctor – again!

May 15, 2007 by Tricia

Chris and I are off to the family doctor in a little while. Due to Chris’ work schedule we actually haven’t been able to get there since sometime in January! Our Doctor doesn’t work on Mondays and since Chris started his new job in December he always had Mondays off but he recently changed his schedule and now gets every second Monday off, and on odd weeks he gets Tuesdays off. So now we can see our family doc again.

This is a doctor that I had been seeing just about every two weeks for the last two years because I’ve been so sick so it feels weird to have had this long of a stretch between visits. It’s not like I ever really needed to see her that much since nothings been changing with my health. I’m still sick, still having fevers every day and still in pain. What can she do anyway other than keep referring me to other specialists and I’m already seeing the best in the city for my Crohn’s anyway.

I’m so tired of seeing doctors. I think I’ve been kind of glad to have had this break.

I guess it’s good timing for the visit this time round though since I’ve been feeling worse than normal lately.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: Chris, Crohn s, crohns, day off, doctor, Family doctor, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, pain, sick

Settling in the Watch Heroes and 24

May 14, 2007 by Tricia

I’m still not feeling all that well but at least I’m not in quite as much pain as I was yesterday. Yesterday was very bad!

Tonight, Chris and I marinated and grilled some Rainbow trout, and I did my potato veggie grill again. Yes, I’m going to list the recipes sometime soon if any of you are interested. So far the food is sitting ok.

We taped Heroes, 24 and a few other shows on the DVR and we’re just relaxing watching the shows. Is anyone else watching Heroes? It’s the second last show. Actually I think tonights 24 is the second last show too.

Pretty soon all we’ll have will be reruns on TV again … I think this year we’ve had more reruns than new episodes of all the top shows. Kind of sucks doesn’t it.

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease, Life with Chris, Television Tagged With: 24, crohns, dinner, fish, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Heroes, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, pain, sick, Television, Trout

If I was a horse you’d shoot me …

May 13, 2007 by Tricia

I really wanted to get around to all my Green Thumb Sunday participants today. I wanted to see what’s blooming in their gardens and weed the sites out that haven’t been participating in quite a while. I also wanted to visit some of the sites of people who participate in Photo Hunters and the Do Follow blogroll.

I had hoped to get into my garden for at least an hour to work on pruning and tidying the areas that I haven’t touched yet.

Most important of all I wanted and needed to redesign the theme for this blog – I’m tired of it, and I need to redesign it so I can put some ads up for the new network that I’ve been accepted into (my big deal!!), and to top it all off I wanted to re-design my husbands blog Guitar Licks too because it’s theme totally sucks and I’ve got a really cool theme to use for that site.

Forget mothers day. I’m not a mom. Chris’ family never got it together to do anything for his mom this weekend either so our Sunday was supposed to be free … for me to work …

I wasn’t able to do any of that today.

I think whatever my husbands been fighting since Friday got to me. Except since I have Crohn’s disease it hit my stomach hard and I’ve been in awful pain all day. Not to mention almost constantly feverish.

I feel horrid. I wasn’t able to eat much either. I tried to eat dinner but my abdomen really started to hurt once I got a bit of food down and I had to stop. I hope I’m not going into yet another flare. I’ve already been in a constant flare for more than two years – I don’t need it to peak again.

I’m so sick of this. I can’t make any plans. I can’t even rely on the small plans I make for myself because it always depends on how I’m feeling. This makes me feel useless.

I want to go to a big blogging convention in Las Vegas in November and I’m being asked already if I’m going and, honestly, I can’t say. All I can say is that I want to go. For all I know I’ll either be so sick I’ll be in the hospital at that time, or I might be feeling healthy for the first time in two years. I just don’t know.

Instead, on days like today I’m just lying on the couch, grimacing in pain. Watching TV to try to take my mind off of the hell my body is putting me through. At least I had the Survivor finale to watch this evening. Good going Earl!

If life’s a race I’m falling behind … and If I were a race horse people would be thinking about putting me down about now.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Television, Web Design Tagged With: blog, Blogging, crohns, crohns disease, design, dinner, fever, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, guitar, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hospital, husband, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, life, pain, Photo Hunters, sick, stomach, Survivor, too sick to eat, watching TV

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