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Good advice found on Small business blog

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Someone made a comment on one of my recent posts, I think it was my last Thursday Thirteen, that they’d love to find a way to make money at home. I agree, I’d also love to find a way to run a successful small business, preferably from my own home and make enough money to live on, if not more.

Well, the Small business blog may be able to help some of use with some ideas. One of their recent posts titled “Home based business Trends in 2007” lists a number of ideas for small businesses that I hadn’t even thought about.

I’ve only just started reading the blog but I can already see that it’s going to be an asset. I’m going to bookmark it and revisit it to read the latest posts. Some topics that I’ve found interesting and helpful have been ones about small business taxes, articles of successful small businesses and of course the home based business trend post that I mentioned earlier.

Check this site out if you want to start a small business of your own.





Discount Orlando Theme park tickets

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You might remember that I wrote a post earlier about possibly having our first vacation in who knows how long this coming year? Well I talked to Chris and he said he’d think about going to Orlando Florida. Now, when he starts to talk that way I know I’ve got him – he’ll go if I start planning the trip.

Now that I pretty much have Chris talked into going to Florida I’ve started to look around on the Internet to see what we can do there. One site that I like is Orlandofuntickets.com where I can purchase discount tickets for places like Disney World, or any of the Orlando based theme parks, dinner shows or other local attractions. Since the prices are discounted I can purchase Disney Tickets for a fairly low price. Certainly we’ll save some money by planning out what attractions we’d like to attend and buying the tickets in advance.

As I said in my earlier post I’m pretty sure Chris would want to go to Universal Studios and some of the Disney theme parks. I’ve been to Discovery Island before and I enjoyed it, and I think Chris would too. Oh I’m so pleased that I can get tickets for very low prices. I know when I went to Florida in the past I was traveling around the whole state with some friends that lived there and we’d just get our tickets right at the attractions that we choose to attend. Some of the prices were quite high. Now I won’t have to worry about that because I’ll be armed with my advance tickets.

I wonder if I can talk Chris into going to one of the dinner shows. We’ve never been to one but we both enjoy live theater and we’ve heard from friends how much fun dinner theater is. Perhaps I we’ll go to Arabian Nights or Medieval times? Has anyone been to either of these shows? Are they good?

An Orlando vacation

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I bet if I did a poll asking people where they are going for a vacation in the New Year many would tell me that they are going to Florida. Am I right? Why not? Florida, particularly the Orlando area, has many activities for both families and couples, plus the weather is quite pleasant during the winter months. It’s the perfect vacation spot.

I don’t know if we are going to have a vacation this coming year – I hope we do, but you’re talking to someone who’s been married for almost 13 years and hasn’t had a honeymoon yet so I don’t know. If I could talk Chris into it and if I felt well enough I’d love to go to Orlando Florida. What other place in the world has 52 theme parks? beaches, resorts, and inexpensive vacation homes?

I know, perhaps I could take Chris into going to Florida if I managed to book us a room in one of the Orlando Florida Hotels that’s near a golf course? I’m sure he’d love to play golf in Florida. We could also visit Disney World, Universal Studios, The hard Rock cafe – Chris is a huge fan of the Hard Rock and there’s a very big one in Florida.

The idea is sounding more and more appealing. I think I’ve talked myself into it. Now to work on Chris.

The woman of your dreams

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Do you know anyone that met their spouse online? Sure, in this day and age lots of people met over the internet and carry out long distance relationships that eventually lead to marriage don’t they. I remember when there was a time when people were very secretive about how they met, but even that happens less often these days.

Having worked in the Toronto Jewelry trade I knew many Russian men, in fact I’d say that 50% of the jewelers that worked in the trade were from Russian or Northern European Countries. Many of them went back to their homeland to marry their russian brides. Some of the marriages were arranged, others had been secured through services similar to the one that Loversplanet.com provide.

The men that I knew that had ended up marrying Russian Brides were, for the most part, quite happy with their experience. I met many of the women as well and they seemed to be happy with their new husbands and their new life in Canada.

Perhaps you are interested in marriage but you aren’t finding the right type of woman? Have you ever thought of learning more about Russian brides? Loversplanet specializes as a dating agency for Russian Women, and they introduce these Russian women to men from all over the world who are seeking beautiful, family and marriage minded Russian women. It’s said that even as young girls Russian women grow up thinking of family and marriage first. That’s not to say that they don’t want careers of their own, but they place family and marriage high in their life priorities. I can attest to this, as I have met and worked with a number of Russian women.

If you are interested in learning more about Moscow brides or perhaps lovely St. Petersburg brides check out Loversplanet and find out how they can help you, perhaps meet the woman of your dreams.

I could live in Chicago

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My brother in law will be coming to Toronto / Brantford from Chicago to celebrate New Years with us. I think that he might actually be driving from Chicago tomorrow. It’s going to be a fun time when he arrives! He loves to party.

You might remember that this past August Chris and I drove to Chicago with some friends, well sorta friends, and spent the weekend there. That was a lot of driving just for a weekend trip, but since it was my first time visiting Chicago I didn’t mind. I was excited to go there since I’d heard so much about the city but hadn’t seen it before.

Even though my visit was brief, I left there with no doubt in my mind that I could live there. You see, I found Chicago to be similar in a lot of ways to Toronto. I know it’s not the same, but the hustle and bustle, always having something going on, yeah that’s just like Toronto.

Now, if I was going to move there, or if someone that I knew was moving there I’d tell them to contact the NewCastle Realty Group. They specialize in Chicago Real Estate for the whole 7 county area including the city of Chicago and over 180 surrounding cities. Their agents are said to be extremely helpful, as they help you find homes that meet your criteria and give you information on the populations in the areas you like houses of worship, median income levels, schools, access to transportation or commuting information and other areas of interest close to the area that you are viewing. They will assist you through the entire process of buying your new home, and if necessary assist you with the selling of your current home, recommending local attorneys, mortgage consultants and home inspectors.

You can browse available properties on their website, and look up other helpful information that will teach you more about the process of buying or selling a home. You might even be interested in reading their informative blog as well.

The NewCastle group sounds very much like the company that helped us purchase our home here in Toronto, and if they are anything like the company that helped Chris and I then you’ll be quite pleased with their services.

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