Monday Monday

Today is Monday... and it marks the first full month of my unemployment. I am still not sure how I feel about this but my friends and family continue to encourage me that this is a good thing ... perhaps a sign that I was a little too stressed out before and in need of a rest :) But resting is not my thing and so far my time has been used relatively well. I have met with a career counsellor, entered into an conference for people who want to become entrepreneurs, contacted and spoke to a few people about entrepreneurship, sold some old decor pieces at a consignment shop and spent lots of time with babies! And there is a whole lot more in store for this said free time. Between planning my upcoming trip to Europe, errands, and home improvement projects there should be no end to the excitement coming up - right?!. Today I am particularly excited about my new adventure which I will call operation 'Marche au Puce' (flea market). Having been encouraged by pages of web dedicated to remodeling flea market finds for little or no money...I may have purchased an ugly kitchen hutch at the local Marche au Puce. I intend to take my lovely flea market find and try to turn into something that I can live with. This should prove to be a daunting task as I am not actually adept with tools or do I know the rules of renos ... but I will learn :) hopefully without loosing any important opposable digits. My experimental unit was purchased for a whopping price of $30 (original price was $75) - how can I go wrong with that? This lovely piece appears to be finished in a medium wood veneer with a lovely gold metal inlay circa early 80's. I am not sure of the direction I will take this lovely piece but I have high hopes that I can transform it into the perfect piece that will prove to be the perfect solution for the lack of kitchen storage and the need to stay active and creative....I am after all in the home decor industry and need to learn how to do things like this...so lets keep our fingers crossed :)

Et voila the original which has just arrived...

Finally time to Blog

Intially, I started this blog as way to share my overseas buying trips with friends and family. There was only one problem with this is... I never actually did it? The reality of traveling all the time for business and trying to meet ridiculous deadlines left very little time to recount said journeys and sadly 4 drafts lay unpublished.

So how do I change this scenario? I mean the whole purpose of the blog was to share my life adventures with friends and family abroad whithout having to send mass group emails to similar people who do not have time. In comes simple solution, become unemployed restless person that realizes that adventures don't only happen abroad! Ok perhaps it was not a simple or easy solution. Let me tell you that leaving a company that you have been with for the better part of my life and never having been unemployed was not an easy or light decision...and yet unavoidable and necessary. And so I am now faced with a new journey which will hopefully be exciting and fruitful.

So I hope you will join me for some new adventures a little closer to home...not that I ever posted any of the abroad ones :) Even though now I have the time maybe I will go back and post some of those unpublished ones.