"Why are you leaving?"I get asked this all the time."Why would you even want to move to a foreign country, especially one that doesn't have Canada's glorious standard of living, to a town of 300 people that doesn't even have a paved road, streetlights, grocery store or potable water, and take an 80% pay cut (if you even find work at all)?"I guess that's a fair question....The answer is long, and complicated. Or is it? Maybe it's just to experience something different for a while. ...
Up and down.
Sometimes I think this blog reads like a roller coaster - up ("going to Roatan wooooooooooo") and down ("forgot about a billion things I have to pay for boooooooooo") over and over again. Although, when I stop to think about it, it's really what life has been like lately so I guess at least it's accurate...?We are back on an UP after my lame downer about my tax miscalculations with having two jobs this year. I hadn't taken into consideration that I wasn't getting enough income ...
Over and over again.
Once again I have managed to overlook an important detail - I hope when people read this blog they can avoid some of the mistakes I am making! Oh well, all in the name of knowledge, right?In my post a couple days ago, I talked about how I'm going to be rolling in cash by the time I leave on my cubicle throwdown thanks to working what basically amounts to two full-time jobs. I completely forgot that with all this money comes a new tax rate since my jobs are not taking into ...
Countdown is on – 1 month.
Only one more month until THIS:SourceI am getting antsy. ...
If you just impulsively bought a plane ticket, read this.
When I found out I was going to have to stay in Vancouver an extra 6-8 weeks longer than I thought, I somewhat impulsively bought a plane ticket to Roatan for next month to go for a quick 8-day trip to tide me over until I can get there long-term at the end of September. I also want to go again before quitting my jobs, leaving my apartment, selling everything I own and traipsing to Central America with a dream fuelled by a 3 week holiday that has a lot of hazy memories due to extreme ...
Be careful what you wish for.
I should know better by now. I should know that when I ask, the universe delivers. I asked for money, and oh boy, am I getting it, but this is not what I had in mind!!The gelato shop owner loves me. Thinks I am a stellar employee, a great team member, all that. (May or may not have something to do with all the other staff not being old enough to drink.) After 4 shifts he gave me a raise to $15/hr and scheduled me for 9 days in a row - every single day right after my office job until ...
No time.
I'm working 8 hours at the office today then going straight to another 7 hours at the gelateria tonight, so I have no time for a post. But this video made my heart happy, so take a look at this instead of reading my ramblings for the day. I think it is rather relevant given my awesome news yesterday.MAKE IT COUNT.Side note: I watched this video the day this guy posted it (April 9) and it had about 5,000 views when I watched it. It's since gone viral and when I posted it here on ...
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I was having a tough weekend last weekend.I decided I better stick the part-time job out to September 15 (why?) so that pushed my trip date back by almost two months, and I was upset about that. Then, in the wonderful way the universe works, I received a "flight alert" email just ten minutes later from Expedia letting me know that in May the price of flights from Vancouver to Roatan were back down to around $700 return (about the cheapest they ever get, and the same price as I paid when I ...
Almost unplugged.
Here's how I hope to be working on my online business in Roatan:SourceMust make this happen!! ...
Not a bad day.
Happy Easter! I am sitting at work in the cubicle because I volunteered to come in and work an overtime word processing shift as it's a holiday (our office gave us Friday and Monday off...yay!) and they wanted a wordpro operator here just in case someone needed work done (note: I am NOT a wordpro operator. My cubicle job is slightly better than that. We have a wordpro department in this office though, and they are mega-shortstaffed, hence the call for someone to work today).So I'm getting ...