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Lingerie parties and Lingerie sales

May 19, 2007 by Tricia

Oh oh! I got an email earlier from my niece and she’s having a lingerie party! She’s holding it at the end of May. That could be interesting!

Thinking about lingerie parties just reminded me that for a very short time I once sold lingerie! It was sometime just before I started working as a nurse. I might even have still been in school at the time. I attended a lingerie party that was being held at a friends and some how I ended up getting talked into selling the stuff myself!

It’s kind of like holding Avon or Tupperware parties. You have your samples and you get a friend to hold a party. You go ahead of time and set everything up. What a pain when you have at least two racks of clothing! Then once everyone arrives you do a little presentation and anyone interested checks out the clothing, tries it on and hopefully orders from you.

I did ok at this, but it was time consuming and I felt like I was using my friends. Plus, you may not realize this about me, but I’m actually kind of shy in public. Especially when I’m around a lot of people that I don’t really know. I don’t think I’m as shy now as I used to be … I mean I’m a nurse – I’ve got to speak to strangers and ask them all kinds of personal details about themselves, and I do my darnedest to get a laugh or smile out of people and you can’t be too shy to do that! However, put me in a restaurant by myself to eat a meal or up on stage to give a speech and it’s not pretty!

Anyway, I don’t know if my niece is selling the lingerie or if she’s just holding the party. I wonder if I’ll end up ordering anything interesting?





Filed Under: Employment, Entertainment, Fashion, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Sales and Marketing, Shopping, Socializing Tagged With: alone in restaurant, clothing, friends, Lingerie, Lingerie parties, Niece, Party, public speaking, selling lingerie, shy, shy in crowds, speech

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

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

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

Enjoying the bounty of Spring

May 13, 2007 by Tricia

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Daffodil

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The daffodils are blooming early this year. Not all of them are up but two types have managed to bloom so far. I think have two or three more varieties that still need to make an appearance.

I’m really enjoying the garden this year. Many of the flowers are blooming early this year. You see I planted some bulbs that bloom early and some that bloom late. Often of the same type – like early, regular and late blooming tulips. This year they seem to be blooming at the same time instead of being spread out over a month to month and a half as they normally do.

Are the spring bulbs still blooming in your garden?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, bulbs, daffodil, flower, flowers, garden, green thumb, nature, photo, photos, plants, spring, sunday

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