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No, not the wrong magazine, we are not trying to sell anything or intend to defraud. On the contrary, we want to warn you that like the previous paragraphs are very common on the Web, and if you read this report ENTER 2.0 decided to venture into virtual businesses, must be alert to prevent such beautiful words and promises as exaggerated as convinced deliver data from your credit card, to give away their money to avivatos online business to spend time on unrealistic or having a great disappointment that after you away from your goal of making money on the Net
One thing is certain: The Internet is a medium with great earning potential, and it does not take a great company, being a business genius, have the idea of the next YouTube or the new Facebook, or any supernatural ability to make money online, either as an extra?? talk to their current income, or as a business in the future that you can devote full time.
So if you are an employee with hours from 9 am to 6 pm, a college student, a housewife or have any occupation that allows you to spend free time on the Internet, the following ideas can inspire a new generation source of income, to use their talents in a way never imagined and, why not, to find the activity that will focus squarely on the future.
And while the promise is not coming to make a million, 5 or 10 million pesos per month could start with modest 50,000 pesos, for example?, Not discard that possibility: great accomplishments are achieved more frequently from goals high.
These ideas are far from the get rich schemes? Within two weeks? (Called in English Does get-rich-quick Schemes?), Which often are simply scams. And some of them are very simple to implement; enough to have an Internet connection, a few spare minutes a day and the tools to make and receive payments (credit card, bank accounts and electronic payment services).
Is this the year ¿.
Alberto Pardo, an expert in Internet and e-commerce, believes that mass access to the Internet in the country and the growth of broadband connections occurred in 2007, this year is suitable for people to make inroads into the virtual business, whether at business or as a means to achieve additional income.
What Colombia still have a deficit of e-commerce sites and web pages that provide revenue options to its visitors, but this year you can start to make a change. In the United States, for example, it is fashionable for companies to hire people online, and empower them to take charge them from their homes provide customer service or do translations? Said.
Pardo believes this year will begin a large explosion in the demand for services for certain profiles of people such as housewives, professionals with free time and people who speak different languages but do not want used. In the country as there are people doing? Talk? Auction sites and affiliate sites, but there is still room for many people to come to these online activities? Adds.
Previous warnings
- For reasons of space and the purpose of the magazine, in this paper we present some ideas, but they are not business plans or guides. Before entering a new business, further investigate the benefits and risks of each.
- Throughout the article mentioned websites and links. There is no commercial interest in the suggested sites (something that does occur when websites recommend to others, because they receive money for each click or customer generated).
- Be suspicious website that offers large amounts in a short time. Do not discard, but investigate whether a site is legal and reliable.
- In the search business, bargains and deals, always inquire about the reputation and legitimacy of its counterpart.
1. Creating affiliate websites
You can create child sites of large e-commerce players like Amazon (www.amazon.com) y Commission Junction (www.cj.com). In Colombia, several sites offer this opportunity, as the auction sites DeReto (www.dereto.com.co) And MercadoLibre (www.mercadolibre.com.co).
The task that must be done is to promote sites or products, and the operation of an affiliate site is simple: you create a website or blog, and he posts links to the sites you have joined (as mentioned above ) or their products. If your visitors click on these links and make a purchase or recorded in them, you receive a commission. For DeReto, for each user that registers from your website will recognize 9,000 pesos, while MercadoLibre pay between 7,000 and 13,000 pesos for each record.
It's not that complicated: you can start with a simple blog about a topic that is attractive what extent possible, related to the products you sell your site? Father ¿. In fact, a large part of the affiliate sites are blogs dedicated to recommend simple products of these sites, so visitors arriving there and have some interest in the advertising links and banners.
When you access one of these sites? FATHER, read all information on membership, register (in most sites the link is at first sight, on Amazon, go to the Join Associates link below the page) and put hands to work with your site (initially not that complicated? With a complex design or longer texts). Although it is a purely commercial site, just get a good traffic if offers interesting and useful content.
Step by step
- Select the sites you will join and register. Read all instructions.
- Choose the domain name (the address of your site). Think short names, sound and easy to remember, and you are in the language of your core audience.
- Pay the hosting (storage space). Although there are many Internet free hosting services, they do not allow you to type an address www.minegocio.com but let him directions as www.freeservers.com / minegocio, Which are not attractive and do not create an image of seriousness among its visitors.
- Choose a publishing tool. You can start with a simple blog in Blogger (www.blogger.com), Which is free, but if you think big, go to tools like WordPress.
- Post the first entry of his blog, and add the links to your site? FATHER.
- Promote your website so that visitors start arriving. Investigate or seek the advice of experts in the art of placing among the top sites in Google searches, and promociónelo in forums and virtual communities to which they belong.
- Topics simple and what sellers are they musical products, video games, electronic gadgets and electronic books.
2. Creating sites or blogs, and advertising sales with Google AdSense
This idea did not fight? With the first, ie, in one place you can post links to Amazon as an affiliate while text ads provided by Google or sell their own banners (although this requires a much larger commercial work ).
To start with the easiest way to sign up with Google AdSense (adsense.google.com). AdSense matches ads from Google on your site with content you post on it, and whenever your visitors click on them, you will get a small fee that ranges from 20 to 1,200 pesos, depending on the keywords and other aspects that Google considers.
As with affiliate websites, the key is to make your site traffic will grow and maintain. But it is also very important to get the configuration of the keywords in your website when registering for AdSense, so that the ads are more effective and generate more clicks.
According to Alberto Arébalos, Google's director of communications in Latin America, in Colombia and there are many websites, both companies and small businesses and independent people who achieve good income with AdSense. What actually is the single most effective alternative for many websites, for all the effort? Google does business, says the manager.
The advantage of AdSense on an affiliate site is that you will have more freedom theme: in the ideal affiliate site will you write about products (not logical that you join Amazon and write about Australian wine, for example), whereas , place on Australian wine surely find appropriate ads from Google AdSense.
The ideal is to find a balance between a topic you are passionate about and that in turn is more interesting to people, then you should not forget that the source of their income is visitor traffic.
Extra Guidelines
In addition to the steps outlined in the first idea (affiliated sites), consider the following:
- When creating your website and set up your AdSense registration, avoid very generic topics. Focus on topics for specific markets (but not only interested in four cats? ¿).
- Similar to an affiliate site, one with Google AdSense is very important that is optimized for search engines. Study or seek advice to ensure that your site's keywords are appropriate and appear in the top when people search on Google, Yahoo, Ask and other search services. If your business is more serious, it may be appropriate to pay an expert in site optimization.
- If you've mastered AdSense, you can start adding other sources of income to your site, for example with Google rivals like Yahoo Publisher Network (publisher.yahoo.com).
3. Work? Freelance online?: Leverage your talents
Do you have excellent spelling and writing, but this only served to your friends and colleagues interrupt him all the time to help them? ? Fluent in English, but not because it takes advantage frequently travels abroad? Is graphic designer, has a computer at home and spent months waiting for a publication to call for a job?
In those cases, you can enter separate working communities or do freelance? Like Elance (a pioneer; www.elance.com), Guru (www.guru.com) Or TrabajoFreelance.com, and offer what you do best.
This class of sites works similarly to the auction of products such as eBay (www.ebay.com) Or MercadoLibre: you can enter, fill out a profile with their services, promote themselves and wait for customers to arrive. But even better, in these places there is a whole dynamic in which businesses and individuals in need of various services publish their requirements and pay for the services taken.
Like auction sites, trust between customers and suppliers, as well as quality assurance and compliance, comes from the same user ratings on the services provided above. Thus, earning a good reputation is very valuable.
The scope of these auction sites? Services What is broad: includes graphic design (websites, logos, Flash animations, illustrations, magazines, etc.), Preparation of texts (translations, writing books, blogs and speeches, editing, etc.), software and technology (software development and Web 2.0 applications, remote technical support, consulting, website optimization, etc.), business or management consultancy and finance public relations and advertising, legal advice and many more fields of knowledge.
Some guidelines
- Before signing up to a site, check for the services you provide are well paid among the clientele. You will see that in some areas can earn very good money, while others internationally paid much less than what you already receive for such work in Colombia.
- Some sites, like Elance, charge some money by joining them or to verify the authenticity of their identity. If you see the income potential, please pay.
- Build a reputation based on work ethic, keeping promises in quality and delivery times and good communication with customers.
- It is logical that a client prefers a veteran? Did these sites, which has 200 positive ratings than for a rookie? Or newcomer. So to start, should be more flexible in their rates, to be selected by customers and start earning qualifications and credibility.
- No income excites gigantic, at least while making a name among potential customers.
4. Sales at auction sites
This idea is not joining MercadoLibre to sell electric shaver that gave him his sister, and that you did not like it because he does not get beard. Although something like this will generate an income point, we're talking business: a steady job, which requires time for various tasks such as publishing products, answer questions from potential clients, monitor the market, deliver products and offer some customer service and a reputation for reliable merchant.
If you already have a Business brick and cement was ¿virtual world can you take advantage of these auction sites to expand your market, diversify and enlarge their customer base. But if it does, you can also find a range of products to sell. Alberto Pardo, who some years ago went DeRemate.com in Colombia, believes that this kind of sites there are still opportunities.
The site specializes in the subject Success with Auctions (www.successwithauctions.com), Which provides useful information for beginners and experts in online auctions, part of an obvious idea, but that not all sellers auction sites are clear: Buy low and sell more expensive ¿.
This council, first, breaks with the paradigm that must compete with low prices only to win at auction. The site reports that shoppers? With similar products do you lean more towards those that are well described or offered by individuals or companies with good reputation by gangazos did? Dubious or reliability.
On the other hand, the obvious idea begins With cheap purchase ¿. What does this mean? You do not have to make a product to sell, you can buy and resell.
This sounds easy, but it requires hard work of research, if you want to operate as a business and not as a momentary income.
Guidelines and Tricks
If you still are not sure what and how to sell, follow these tips to start your auctions with higher chances of success.
- Choose your favorite auction sites. If you have the ability to pay and get paid abroad should not leave out eBay, the world leader in this field and one of the leading exponents of electronic commerce (sales exceeding 44 billion dollars a year). For sales in Colombia, choose local players (MercadoLibre and DeReto).
- To buy low and sell more expensive to investigate. It will not get around the corner a product at half price and sell a few days later to double or triple. Monitor auction sites in their most successful products, analyze why some people sell both. Think about products that are not offered on these sites, or where you can be very competitive.
- Be creative. If, for example, you register on eBay, how about trying to sell Colombian crafts? Or, if you can buy on eBay and bring products cheaply and use ¿in the luggage of a friend, or shipping services to Colombia as Tranexco (www.tranexco.com), How about selling clothes out of season that is achieved beyond laughable?
5. Online Games: copper for victory
If you feel guilty after spending three hours or Winning Eleven Hattrick in a day's work, and feel that it is not productive but can not stop his love of games, this idea is for you.
You can make money while having fun playing online against players from all over the world, which seems the dream of many. It need not be a great champion in the various games, but the win will bring the best dividends.
One of the most popular in this area, and that ensures to deliver about $ 250,000 per day, is WorldWinner (www.worldwinner.com). It has games in different categories such as strategy, arcade, and sports cards. Some of the most popular are the pool, Minesweeper, Bejeweled 2, Solitaire and Chess.
Where does the money you can win? Initially, advertising that sells games site traffic generated by the players. But in many cases, to play for prize money all competitors must pay a small fee, and much of what is collected goes to the winners.
For WorldWinner, besides money, motivates players with other awards, such as' what forums rankings, so the popularity is another incentive. Registration is free, although more advanced services and the ability to compete for money requires an enrollment whose price starts at $ 10.
Benefits of these online games
- You can play free games for learning, while having fun and interacting with people around the world, when you feel competitive, you can pay in search of prizes.
- Given the variety of games, you better look for ones that are better adapted to their tastes and skills.
- You have the option of inviting a player to individual challenges, or may participate in competitions together (varies by game).
- If you become an expert in a game, then you can make good money playing continuously.
- If you are not as good as I thought, you may lose the small investment made by enrolling in a competition.
- In the free games, training, rivals may not be playing to their full potential. Do not rely and pay before being really good.
- If you tend to gaming addiction, you may have a good position to win, but will have one less reason to keep time at the computer, so you must be careful.
6. Forex: Foreign currency transactions
Forex (Foreign Exchange means??) Is an electronic market currency that has gained much popularity because it has good returns and also provides some of the excitement that can feel stockbrokers, is it? Play with prices? international currencies, forex buy and sell at a price higher one.
Earn money with Forex is exciting and very challenging, but also risky, because that play money?? Their own or others. Mechanisms requires knowledge of the transactions, be up to date in international stock issues and even the state of security and public order in different countries (the main transactions occur between euro, yen, sterling and Swiss franc against the U.S. dollar). In this market, know more and better analysis is synonymous with profits while making decisions by Do Or emotions smell can mean loss or bankruptcy.
Although large investors move millions of dollars a day, Forex is popular because you can start with more modest sums. To get into the business, you must open an account with a broker? Operates what currency, which must be licensed for this activity (beware extraordinary deals are unreliable). This operator will teach and practice the system will leave you with money? Lie?, To acquire knowledge and practical enough to be successful.
When you feel ready, you can provide proof that will back to work with real money. You must pay a registration, which can start at $ 30, but this varies by provider. If you are new, your operator will protect with a limit of 100 or 200 dollars, so you do not lose much if you make a mistake, when either an expert, you can move thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For those already in Forex, everything is simple, but it is a rather complex process for newcomers, especially if you work with international suppliers that use foreign terms in English. So, a good option is to start in this world with advisers preferably Spanish and Colombian.
There are many websites that teach Forex and have no purpose to make money. However, there are sites that provide clear and complete information. One is Colombia Forex (www.colombiaforex.com), Which provides comprehensive information and training program. Another site is a blog about Internet investments Eltiempo.com (www.eltiempo.com / participation / diegotov), Its author, Diego Tovar, says it takes six years as a Forex trader, and seeks to provide useful information and real about this business.
If you are comfortable with the technical English, you can find sites in English. Forex100.net (www.forex100.net) Publishes a list of the hundred best sites dedicated to this market.
As trading Forex can offer very attractive returns, risks are also great.
Ease Forex trading, a profession that does not require years of experience or those who work in it, is an advantage that has become very popular worldwide, but also makes the dangers of large losses and bankruptcies bad decisions are part of everyday life.
Like all such markets, currencies are unpredictable, even if the subject is studied much. Fortunately, you can have advisors that protect from rookie mistakes.
7. Mail and online surveys
The authors of the website ChaseTheGlow (www.chasetheglow.com) State that lasted several months researching methods to make money online, and found that two of the three easiest are replying paid online surveys and read emails of a commercial nature (the third method is to sell photos online our idea number 9).
The idea to make money reading mail (commercial messages) sounds good, especially since they have to have intimate knowledge on a subject or dominate activity. However, it is the most profitable, if you have other ideas: the different services that you can enroll pay between 40 and 100 pesos per message read so that an average of 10 messages per day would yield a monthly income of only 12,000 to 30,000 pesos.
The number of messages received daily depends on the language, the country and the topics you select, so if you choose this idea and has the ability to use an address in countries like the U.S., you get more income.
There are many companies (the business is legal) that this kind of mail sent to their members, they are charged to companies that want to advertise their products by mail, and pay per message read. As the mail readers?? Choose the topics that interest them, in theory is also beneficial for the advertiser (so they say).
One of the sites you can assess what is Publifacil.com offers service in Colombia and other Latin American countries? Eleven, you pay half of what they deliver English sites (20 pesos per message), but that also allows refer people and earn referrals and for those who read the messages.
According to this site, if a person manages to refer to another hundred, and all Publifacil.com sends 20 emails per month what they read them?, Would win a total of about 140,000 pesos. Other sites you might visit are Pay Email (www.payemail.net), Which ensures that some of their members earn 500 to $ 2,000 per month, and SendMoreInfo (www.sendmoreinfo.com), But a Google search will give you many more options.
Reply online surveys also can generate some income. Although demand more time than emails why do have to read the text, and not just clicking?, Are also more profitable: each survey may represent a payment of 500 pesos or more, and there are some very specialized why can pay the equivalent of 20,000 pesos ($ 10).
Clix Sense (www.clixsense.com) y Treasure Trooper (www.treasuretrooper.com) Are some of the most recommended sites on the web, and you only have to answer surveys on topics that appeal to you (or if you want to earn more money on items that generate more surveys each month).
Two ideas similar to reading email and filling out surveys are doing product reviews, and charge for access websites. Not recommended for two reasons: writing good product reviews, to be paid very little, takes time and is not profitable, while keen to try products and write about them, go for the first two ideas suggested (create an affiliate site or create one to sell AdSense ads).
The second option looks so easy and so profitable as the mail, but it could lead to sites that cause problems to your computer security.
8. Sale and virtual goods business
News from November 2006 seemed fiction, but they were real: 500,000 young Chinese do they work in data centers? Buying and selling gold on the popular game World of Warcraft (www.worldofwarcraft.com), For players from other countries that pay for it. It is a fact that virtual worlds can generate wealth in the real world.
In fact, in late 2006 it was reported that he had emerged the first millionaire in Second Life (www.secondlife.com), The popular virtual world in which more than 11 million people live their second life. Business Week magazine reported at the time that Anshe Chung already had in your bank account does the real world? Several million dollars, having changed their Linden dollars does the Second Life virtual currency why real money.
Chung wealth achieved this in less than three years after an initial investment of $ 9.95, when you created your virtual character Ailin Graef. Or better Graef, Chung virtual business? Started in real estate, then grew and began to build, and then changed the field and put together a global corporation? Which then led to the real world with the name Anshe Chung Studios, this develops 3D environments for applications such as videoconferencing and business education.
But no need to build great businesses make money in Second Life: There are several ways to earn Linden dollars that can then be converted into U.S. dollars.
For example, you can learn to make their own virtual items like furniture or clothes? 'And, if you have a talent for it, can sell to other players. You can also offer their services in what you can do in this virtual world, for example, build houses.
It can also become an employee of another player and receive a salary, or be a trainer, if you can become an expert in Second Life and achieves the level to teach novices.
Last year, more than 11 million inhabitants of Second Life came to spend more than $ 35 million in a single month.
According to Alberto Pardo, although this type of online activity intensive and time on the part of users to become a successful business, has a great future and is an unexplored area, both in Colombia and in the world.
9. Videos and photographs that make money themselves
If your videos on YouTube are so good that they already have a good number of visitors, or if your photos on Flickr get the best reviews of those who come to see them by chance, maybe you have a source of income that has yet to unleash.
If you are an amateur in these arts, you can share the fruits of his talent with people around the world while getting paid by the sites that host their creations.
Although Internet circulate daily million photographs, images of good quality and there is still demand for those willing to pay for them.
Sites like Fotolia (www.fotolia.com) Have been successful in linking the need for good material with hundreds of thousands of photographers in the world. This site, which has about 560,000 members, including designers, amateur and professional photographers, art directors, etc.., Pay those who generate images of all kinds and of different sizes (these should be high resolution, if you want to share your photos will have to be at least half a megapixel and higher resolution photos are sold more cheaply).
By uploading a photo on Fotolia, this will pass an approval process, after 48 hours will air and thousands of visitors will be able to buy with a few clicks. The best: the retail price of your image does not put Fotolia, but you, within limits set by the size and the number of photos you have previously sold. The commissions will ever be sold will be from 33 to 80 percent, depending, among other factors, if you surrender to Fotolia with exclusivity or not.
A photographer? Novato on Fotolia may collect, for example, a small photo in a dollar, and the maximum size, $ 20. Do the math: if you climb to begin about 10 photos of medium size, and in total 100 copies sold in its maximum possible price (two dollars each), would win $ 200 (400,000 pesos) in the first month.
Sounds easy, right? However, your images will have to compete with tens of thousands of high quality pictures and on many themes, so you should strive to do good work.
If you are not a good photographer, but instead records videos or edit on your computer, also have alternatives. Metacafe is a site like YouTube, though much less popular, it has a payments scheme whereby videos posted for every thousand times your video display, will pay $ 5 (about 10,000 pesos).
It seems a lot of money, but the good videos on this site can add up to 5,000 to 25,000 prints, which means that the authors Y125 earn 25 dollars a day.
To be successful in his foray into Metacafe, try to publish videos in English or no spoken language, that language is not a barrier and popular video can do.
10. EBook Sale
If you want to become a salesperson to make money, but do not have the time or the facility to send and receive physical products at great prices to sell more expensive, has an alternative: selling eBooks and other digital content (which is technically called? resale copyright ¿).
If you are a frustrated writer and no publisher would want to publish a work, write, convert to PDF and sell it online. If you try to do it yourself is a complicated process, but a service called ClickBank (www.clickbank.com) Offers the possibility of offering his book among a community of more than 100,000 people looking to sell content.
But if you cannot write, you can use Click Bank to sell e-books? Others did. For that, you simply enter the Marketplace link and do a search for books that can sell, selecting the theme of the book (not delude that sell literature: most e-book covers topics such as business, health, internet, computers and recreation).
You can also sort the search according to the popularity of books, the commission give marketers and other indicators. Although it is best to join a site like this and as mentioned in the 10 ideas is to study in depth and master its operation before innovate, ClickBank is evident in the lack of books in Spanish, so there could find a profitable niche .
If you have ideas for new books, but can not or does not know how to translate them into text for yourself, go as a client to one of the services mentioned in number 3 the idea to hire someone to write it for you in exchange for a sum. If your idea is good, could recover the investment quickly.
Other random thoughts
If between 10 found no previous alternatives that appeals enough to get on the road, do not be disappointed: there are other options, not as means of most people, but it can open for you if you have special skills or knowledge. Some of them are:
- Creating Web 2.0 applications and services. If you master programming languages for Web 2.0 applications, and has a good idea Or can adapt existing idea?, Why not try to assemble a site with a good application?
- Adaptation of successful ideas. When Digg (www.digg.com) Publishing site and vote on news and content on the Internet became a phenomenon emerged dozens of sites that imitated. His owners attempted Steal? Offering users the same as Digg, but most failed because they did not provide anything new visitors to abandon the pioneer.
Of the survivors in our language? Were you Menéame (www.meneame.com), A Spanish site that not only copied to Digg, but interesting innovations incorporated and has achieved a large captive audience.
So successful has been that nearly Digg buying late last year, and now has tens of Menéame own clones in Spain and other Latin American countries (Colombia has Tulinq.com, and between 2006 and June 2007 was Punteame.net air, an initiative that did not survive).
- Launch of crazy ideas? ¿. When a student Alex Tew? English? Launched in August 2005, his site The Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com), Which sought to make some money to help pay for their education, the prospects were not encouraging. Despite the grandiose name of the site, the idea of selling advertising into small cubes 1 pixel, at $ 1 each, sounded ridiculous.
In the first week nothing happened, but the site began to be mentioned in the corridors and then, when it was mentioned in the British media, his popularity soared from one moment to another. In January 2006, the boy had sold all pixels, to customers in England, the United States and other countries, and some to high price: 1 generated revenues of $ 037,100.
If you have long been an idea that seems crazy and should not pledge your home to set it up, try: most men who have created new business successful hit after several failed ventures.
- You can create programs for mobile devices, whether software development is strong, for example, to the new Google platform, Android (have to think not only in software, but in how it earns income).
- Creating a blog to generate income on another front. You can post a blog on a topic that dominates, or an e-book, and try to position itself as an authority on the subject. If successful, the proceeds from the sale of the e-book or ads on the blog will not be as important as those that can generate invitations to lecture or customers seeking their advice.
- Working in marketing (MLM) business combined with virtual or physical? ¿. Search Google the words marketing, MLM and Internet (or if you want results multilevel English), and learn how you can make money this way.
Some recommendations
- While making money sitting at the computer sounds easy, none of these ideas suggests that you will make money? Easy Do. His accomplishments online, unless you have a great idea that will revolutionize the market how Facebook or The Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com), Are directly proportional to your effort. The millionaires of the digital economy certainly had the right idea and strategy, and perhaps an element of luck, but also had to work hard.
- Note that while the Internet is masificándose in Colombia (there are over 10 million Internet users in the country, according to figures from the CRT), many of the ideas for making money online yet appear profitable in the country. Leverage the Internet is global and what can other markets attack.
- The most attractive market for its potential size and the relative ease of making and receiving payments, is the United States. We should defend? Does the English to do more business.
- Although businesses are virtual, the money is real, so we need to have the means to make the payments required (memberships, subscriptions to sites, product purchases, etc.), And the mechanisms for the money. If your business is in Colombia, you only need a credit card and a bank account.
- If you decide to access a service abroad, must have appropriate means. In addition to a credit card that can be used internationally (and cost), should you subscribe to services like PayPal (www.paypal.com) To make some payments (in Colombia does not yet receive payment service), and Moneybookers.com to make and receive money transfers. If you do not have those means, the only way to pay and get paid is the electronic money transfer (wire transfer??), But this is costly and its profitability subtracted virtual activity.
- Having a bank account in the United States would save money and give more flexibility to your business. In American Life site (www.vidaamericana.com / banking.shtml) Presents free information on how to open a bank account, although the procedures are cumbersome and usually requires it personally. There are ways to do it remotely, from Colombia. Search Google and forums Colombians (as Laneros.com and Controversia.net) discussions about how. Sites such as one developed by an Ecuadorian company, called How to open a bank account without being a resident of USA? (www.us-bank-non-residents.com/spanish), Promise accurate and detailed information to do it, but charge around $ 30 for the information.
- Many of the services to make money on the Internet is in English, but also are directed to markets in this language. One trick to get better revenue is as follows: if you have a way to register the services they chose a physical address in the U.S. (from a friend or relative, for example), do so. But first, read the fine print of the terms of service of those sites.
- Do not wait micropayments. The high transaction costs make both for websites that pay users for their online activities, and for yourself, the best thing is to make large payments (some sites $ 10 shipped from and others like Metacafe (www.metacafe.com), From $ 100).
- Much of the revenue generated comes from suppliers referrals. No topic addresses share the services chose friends and acquaintances what if already established that are profitable and helpful reviews, but be careful: do not become a spammer? Nor fill the boxes? Mail invitations to their contacts with these sites.
- To start your business, nothing like having initial customers are more willing to buy. As traditional family businesses begin with sales to neighbors and family, you should start promoting your business among your contacts the real world and in virtual communities in which it participates (blogs, forums, discussion lists, etc. .).
And, if you have not already, it's time you log into Facebook, the fastest growing social network in the last year, and in which Colombia is the country number 10 in number of users in the world (currently, according to this site, there are 650,000 registered Colombian). Facebook not only serves to make contact again with old friends, but it can serve to drive almost all the ideas we recommend below.


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As I mentioned last time, I've been through a whirlwind and haven't posted much. Well, part of that whirlwind has to do with a job change. I'm so very happy to say that I am the new psychology and sociology teacher at a local high school. It is the best job & words cannot express how much I love it. With my new job, came my new classroom. A classroom I only have to share for 1 period. So, you know I had to craft it up!
Here is the first project I did for my room. I saw something similar at a craft store that I like to frequent and get ideas. In fact, every time I go in there, I take about a dozen pictures of things I'd like to make. Well, this is one of those items that I just couldn't pay $30 for when I knew I could make it myself and make it 'mine.' At the time, I didn't have my watercolors yet, so I used the Watercolor Pencils (3505) and the Blending Pen (3174). I colored a 12x12 piece of White Daisy Cardstock (1385) with a blue'ish colored pencil and then blended it with water.
Next, I cut out the W from a retired piece of 12x12 cardstock from Close To My Heart. The roses are cut from Honey cardstock (X5668) using the Art Philosophy Cricut Collection (Z3171). I added some retired bling flourishes.
I was able to get a 50% discount on the frame at the craft store, so of course I bought it. It's a shadow box frame, and I really liked it. And, since I wanted the turquoise, grey, and yellow colors in my room, it was perfect!
So, as you can see, for only $10 for a frame and items I currently had, I was able to make an adorable monogram for my classroom.

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I hope you're all having a fab n' groovy weekend.
It's been a busy ol' week for me, I've spent most of it as a complete nervous wreck as I've finally got myself a van for my gardening work.
After 3 years of hoicking the lawn mower, a myriad of tools, soil & plants into the back of the family car, it was time to get something more practical.
It's been a bit of a shock going back to manual gears after the luxury (& laziness) of an automatic and because there are no windows at the back I'm also having to learn to park & reverse using just wing mirrors. Scary stuff but I love it. Just gotta sort out the logo.
Meanwhile, here's a card I've made using the Aquilegia Flower.


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The pearls of wisdom of Vivekananda are still relevant as he said, "This national ship of ours, ye children of the Immortals, my countrymen, has been playing for the ages, carrying civilization and enriching the whole word with its inestimable treasures. But today it may have sprung a leak and got damaged, through your own faults or whatever cause it matters not. What would you have placed yourselves in it, do now? Would you go about cursing it and quarrelling among yourselves! Would you all not unite together and put your best efforts to stop the holes? Let us all gladly give our hearts, blood to do this, and if we fail in the attempt, let us all sink and die together with blessings and not curse on our lips."
Taking leads from these words and making them our guide, we can all solve our complex problems as we are witnessing today in the society. It is indeed a day to resolve, not for ourselves, but for the good of society for our children to make the nation a better place for all and live with compassion and humanity.
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"Three branches and three levels of government", I explain, diagraming the hierarchy of national state and local government on the interactive whiteboard. "Now you try. Match the roles with their positions in this table. Yes, Governor is in the executive branch of state government, just as President is in the executive branch of the national government." We are studying the roots of democracy in 3rd grade Social Studies. "What is a socialist, someone wants to know, why is it a bad thing?" Interesting question and observation. So often teachers can hear adults speaking through the mouths of children. " Socialism, hmmm, what does it sound like?" Someone says he hears the word 'social'. "And what do you know about social?" I persist. It's like having a party or having friends, several agree." OK, we can look it up" audible groans. "I will look it up", I encourage. "Let's see",
" Any of various political philosophies that support social and economic equality, collective decision-making, and public control of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists …"
Interesting, I think to myself. This sounds just like our school system. The students are satisfied, sort of, they have no further questions after we discuss the meaning of collective decision-making. On the other hand, my head is imagining what it would be like to have a school system created in the image of democracy. Why? For the very same reasons, 'we' capitalist supporters enjoy innovation, self determination and upward mobility. People who actually work within the governmental structure don't enjoy those economic benefits. We don't generate capital, so we can't play the game. I see this incongruous match of public schooling with the teaching of democratic principles a truly fascinating societal tension producing unrealistic expectations for schools.
I googled the topic and found a number of people agree, acknowledge and in fact support the socialist agenda of public education. On the other hand, the detractors also feel strongly that these two philosophies should not coexist indefinitely. What are the alternatives?
Joanne Barkan digs very dig and supplies ample fuel for the fire of educational reform in her recent article in Dissent magazine.


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well I oso did a little bit crazy thing oso.... the clue is COLOUR. lol
well thanks Bi Ying and her family for the dinner~ Thanks to her mum like rush back home to cook for us. Nice dinner and nice people. lol. And then someone continued crazy alone there.
and a bit violent just now. 一直围殴围殴, hahahha~!!!!


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A little delayed on this trial post due to a new computer and issues uploading my videos to YouTube, gah. Things finally seem to be working, so I will give this a shot 🙂
The pups and I headed to Charlotte last Thursday evening for 3 days of AKC agility. I was looking forward to seeing some friends that I hadn't seen in a while and I just generally love this trial. They always have great judges and awesome prizes. Things typically run very efficiently as well.
Furthermore, I had set this trial as a goal date for putting Rue back into the Standard classes. She had been showing me that she was comfortable with the teeter in several different settings, so I was visualizing nice drivey teeters for her. I was also excited to see if we could get a good startline routine going. The weekend before last I brought Rue to a local CPE trial to give us an opportunity to work on this in a low stress environment. What I found was that if I crated her very close to the ring, took her out 10 minutes before her run to potty and get some food rewards for the practice jump, let her rest and take her out just before run and jazz her up with her fav tug toy then she was really excited to run! I was excited to try out our new routine here in Charlotte.
No video for today unfortunately 😦 I entered both dogs in FAST and JWW, but only Miles in Standard today as I didn't want to overdo it with the baby dog. Exc. FAST was first and I planned a fun opening which went easily in the send bonus. Miles handled it all like a champ and also had a gorgeous aframe in the opening. He won the class with 74 points!
Lil' Rue came out next for Open FAST. I got her jazzed up with her bunny tug outside of the ring, then stole the toy, ran in the ring while simultaneously removing and dropping her leash. We had a nice transition into running the course and she was wicked fast. She did a 2 strided a-frame with incredible air time and landed in the yellow, whoa! Unfortunately the send involved a forced layer and she did the offcourse jump (she actually did the Excellent send, hehe). I was very proud of this run.
Next was Miles' standard run. Randy Reed typically has really nice big dog courses, but this one was a little tricky. Miles handled a short lead out very well and flew over the dogwalk and nearly into an offcourse tunnel. I probably didn't decel or he was too far ahead to read it and I ended up calling him off the tunnel very very hard 😦 He had his snout in the tunnel hole and I admitedly thought we got called for the offcourse. I was so pissed at myself for calling him off that hard that I forgot to handle and pulled him around a jump with ultimately NQ'd us. Again he had a brilliant a-frame in this run.
Last to go was Exc. JWW and both dogs were entered. It was a pretty tricky course by Tracy Hanna with 4 boxes that we had to navigate through, bleh. I decided to do a lead out to a lateral send with Miles and then planned to just try to show the correct line of motion through the rest of the boxes. He did a fantastic job and took 2nd place earning himself 12 points! However, at only 4.75yps, I'm not sure where we lost time on this course…definitely bummed to not have video to look at his striding.
Rue and I did the same warmup/startline routine as we had done for FAST, but this time unfortunately we went to the line too soon and we disconnected. She took the first jump and then stopped to stare at a piece of bar tape that was hanging down off the second jump. She stared at it for probably 4-5 seconds (again wish I had video), but then went on to blow the course away. I think she probably would have had a time very close to Miles' on this one if she hadn't have stopped since her official time was 38 seconds 🙂
It poured rain over night so the fields were a bit sloppy today, but the air was brisk and the sun was shining so we were off to a good start!
Excellent FAST was first and I wanted to just try to rip it up with Miles and have a fun run since yesterday's call off probably had caused him to slow down in JWW. I left him in a stay and he really was moving out! He had a fabulous send and we took 3rd place with 71 points. I had to repeat the teeter since he got on it from the side at the pivot, silly boy, so that cost us time.
Open FAST was next and I was excited to see what Rue thought of yesterday's runs as it would be evident in this run today. I decided not to do the teeter in either FAST run just to keep it fun and motivating for her. We started out great with good speed over the aframe, but then she started to slow down. This is odd as the frame usually propels her into high gear, so I figured something was wrong. Well 1 jump later and Rue took herself to poop, oops! Poor little girl was so embarrassed 😦 I must say this was a first for me….hopefully I won't have to revisit this again.
The day was running Small-Tall, so for the next two runs I knew that I'd have to run Rue before Miles. I was a bit nervous about her Standard run as it was, but now even moreso due to the events of FAST, ack! I forced myself to let it go and just visualize a happy dog who wants to do the teeter. Well I guess it worked because she was brilliant! We started out a bit slow and she was looking around and the judge and ring crew, but as soon as she hit the poles we were off to the races. She had an amazing dogwalk and gorgeous teeter, yahoo!! This earned her her 2nd AX leg and she got 1st place!
Next I got to run Mr. Miles. I planned a lead out push past the 2nd jump, but I could tell he was not comfortable and he got up out of his sit so I just released him and did a forward motion front cross. He was slow through the beginning of this course and then took 10 seconds to lie down on the table, sigh. He managed to still make time and earned MX leg #9, but I was worried that something just wasn't right with him. Either it was still the call off from yesterday, or maybe it was too many lead outs, or maybe god forbid something physically awry. He got 4th place and 4 measly points for this run, bleh.
The last run of the day was Exc. JWW. The opening was a large circle of jumps and then a pull into a tunnel hole before opening up into a really fun a fast course. Both dogs found the opening demotivating and Rue did some trotting, but then really opened up at the weaves. This earned her MXJ leg #2 and 4 points 🙂
Miles and I managed to pull out a QQ with this run despite me nearly pulling him off the second-to-last jump. He had an amazing save with that one! I made sure to start with him on this course. No placement, but 5.2yps and 11 points for my boy!
Even more rain overnight made for really sloppy fields this morning. The club put a lot of mulch down which helped a bit, but wore down pretty quickly. I knew that I wanted a motivating run with Miles, but also didn't want to push too hard for speed for fear that he would get injured (his fall in Savannah really messed up his front end according to our massage therapist). I led out about 1-2 steps just to shape his approach to the teeter a bit and he did a really nice job with his course. I predicted that we'd have an issue with the rear at the jump before the poles and we did. I need to learn to be more patient with those crosses and I also need to teach him to have more obstacle commitment in those scenarios. Overall a great run!
Next was lil' Rue's turn to show me what she had for this course. I decided to change my warm up a bit with her and instead of tugging outside the ring and just running in, I decided to engage her with the bunny tug and then transition her to tugging on her leash so that we could tug into the ring. This seemed to work really really well for her as she didn't trot once on this course. She again had a brilliant teeter and awesome dogwalk despite me getting behind due to the soggy ground! She actually beat Miles' time by a fraction of a second on this run, wow!! This earned her the AX title with another 1st place!!
Our last run of the weekend was a fun JWW course by Tracy Hanna. I was psyched to not have to lead out with Miles and was looking forward to a really fun and fast run. Miles looked great on this course, but I got a bit lost after the first tunnel and got caught a bit behind a wing which made me push into his line a bit and sent him offcourse, dang! He recovered from that fine and really motored for the rest of the course 🙂
Rue's run was pretty good, but there was a small delay at the start that caused us to disconnect and for her to stop tugging unfortunately. I'm hoping that this was just a situational thing and that I'll be able to use this routine with her in the future! Overall a great run, but she had some trotting in the beginning. This did earn her MXJ leg #3 and 4 more points. She now has 17 points and will start going for QQ's from here on out! How did that happen so fast?!?!
Overall I'm pleased with my dogs' performances at this trial. Historically this has not been Miles' favorite place and I need to remember a year ago here he couldn't even go through the tire. I do think that for the next few trials I need to just focus purely on speed for him and start with him instead of leading out. I will NOT (I need to write this on my hand or something) call him off an offcourse that I've sent him to….I cannot. It's very deflating for him. I was a bit caught up in the fact that he only needs one more MX leg for his title and I cannot focus on that. If it's speed that I want (and I desperately do) then I need to just focus on that. His yps at this trial were definitely below average 😦 Granted I cannot base a trend on one weekend, but I do think I need to make a proactive attempt at correcting that possibility! Miles had perfect aframes all weekend (5/5) so I can't complain about that!
Rue's goals for the next couple of trials are speed and connection to me. We will continue to work on our crazy warm up/startline routine as I really think she digs it 🙂 Our next trial, she is only entered in JWW and then she has 3 weeks off before we travel for 2 days of AKC in Columbia, SC. She is entered in Standard there, yay! It's interesting to me that while it's natural for her to run faster in class/practice when I have a reward on me, but she really really seems to dig the international style courses that we train on much more than these AKC type courses. Something to think about as to why. I would imagine it's because the international style requires more quick send and chase type movements from the handler than a big ol' pinwheel does. I wonder how I can keep moving more in these trial situations. Hmmmm….
Up next: 2 days of AKC indoors in a horse arena this weekend followed by Miles only in 2 days of AKC at his favorite trial location–Teamworks! Then a couple of weeks off before heading out of town for more AKC agility!


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T-Shirt Fun
Picked up a couple of plain t-shirts at Target today and then found some wonderful fat quarter collections at Joanns. Add in a little heat-and-bond and I'll have some unique and adorable t-shirts. Stay tuned for pics when they are finished.
And despite my hand-wringing about knitting a couple of weeks ago, I've actually been knitting quite a bit. I'll get some pics of that posted soon too.
What are you crafting today?
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a Proverbs wife's life
just every day life as a Christian, wife and mother...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
practice makes perfect.
so i've been practicing the art of depending on Jesus to meet all of my needs, and boy is today ever a day for practicing getting better at this.
yesterday joyce meyer said, "if you want God to mature you, He will do that. if you want more patience, He's going to throw you into the most impatient situations. if you want more grace, He's going to put you in graceless situations. if you want more peace, He's going to put you in situations where peace is nowhere to be found!"
never a word has been truer.
as i said, i've been practicing depending on Jesus to meet my needs. as a Christian, this can be very difficult to do. the surprising thing is...many people expect Christians to automatically be able to do things such as have peace, be patient, and depend on Jesus Christ for everything.
but we must practice these things daily for them to be a habit. they dont always come so easily.
so, i've been praying for more opportunities to depend totally on Christ to meet my needs and not on my own ability.
well, today is my lucky day.
i woke up, everything was fine. house in order, girls asleep, husband safely at work. so i had my prayer in bed, like i do nearly every morning now (i do it between sleep and wakefulness, and surprisingly, it's one of the best times for me to feel Christ's comfort!). so i sit up, use the bathroom and hear a knock at the door. it's my friend. she visits me and we chat up a bit, and everything is good. she says, "do you smell gas burning?" i look in the kitchen, and yup, the stove is turned on, but the pilot hasn't caught, releasing gas fumes into the home. i lift the window, air out everything and everything is fine. i turn on the stove to cook the girls oatmeal for breakfast...it's nice and uneventful.
about an hour later my friend leaves, and i go to make myself some eggs. the stove doesn't turn on. then i go to check the other burners, nothing works. i turn on the oven...eek. it's black; the pilot light has gone out. panic sets in.
just then my husband calls. "husband!" i announce, with a little more panic than i intended, "i think our gas is turned off!"
he groans audibly. "check the dryer!" he says, a glimmer of hope in his voice.
i go upstairs, turn on the dryer and wait for it to start up while talking to him. after about 3 minutes, i don't hear the distinctive "click" and then whooshing, blowing noise indicating that the gas burner has caught to add heat to the machine.
"yup! they caught us!"
we both groan loudly, and my heart skips a beat. we always dread public service electric and gas "catching" us, or disconnecting one of our services. but because the bill is so high, pushing about 250-300.00 a month for both (nearly the price we pay in rent)....it's always a stark thought in the back of our minds threatening to become reality at any nanosecond.
today it is reality.
this wouldn't make me "anxious" (i use the word lightly, i'll explain myself below) normally, because we'd just dig in our bill money, send off the 300.00 for the bill...and wait the few hours for the services to be restored.
but today, we have no bill money. so we have no money for service restoration.
enter anxiety stage left.
or better yet, enter what is *supposed* to be anxiety, stage left (but what has turned into some real peaceful living).
anyway, back to the story. it wouldn't be so bad, but our home is an electric and gas home. everything that we use that's not a small appliance uses both electricity and gas simultaneously to operate correctly. this includes our heating system, stove and dryer. so none of these things are in operable order now. if even my dryer was, i would just ride it out. that in and of itself is telling me that...
i must be learning to depend on Christ to meet my needs and get me out the messes we're in. this is because instead of being totally devastated that my gas is off, as i would've been in the past, i feel like a pioneer woman. we still have electricity, so our air conditioning unit is functioning perfectly. we have enough hot water for the next 2 days or so, and we do have an electric griddle to cook foods on, while our rice cooker and microwave are electric powered. things aren't too bad on my end. in my mind, we'll just have to work this out until we're able to get the gas back on. it can't stay this way forever. i have this odd excitement in the pit of my belly about being able to do things the "old fashioned way", and i've become VERY creative with meals, making some of the best dishes we've had in a long time. it's like this is adventure time for me.
plus, we can depend on Christ to help us meet all of our needs. so there's no need to worry. this is my first time ever, feeling FULLY at peace with a situation like this. taking it day by day...i now understand the verse:
Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
unfortunately, my husband was more stressed out than i wanted him to be (althogh he has since calmed down and too put his trust in Jesus to get us through this!), but i remember being where he was. worried and anxious and stressing what i can't control. he was considering borrowing the money, but we already owe 500.00 to family members (that we're paying off) plus two credit cards. so "borrowing" more is out of the picture as far as i'm concerned. if we had no debt, it wouldn't be a problem. but borrowing another 300.00 would push us up to 800.00 to pay back--way too much.
im not happy with that idea, so we scrapped it.
anyway, i digress. none of it even matters. what matters is we still have what we need to be ok, the only difference is i have to take the girls uptown for their showers to grandmas house. hubby showers on his way home from work at his moms house already, so it works out perfectly.
we'll come up with something to get our bills under control. we always do. in the meantime in between time...God the Father is still on the throne! and for the first time ever, i am totally basking and relaxing and feeling peace and total understanding in this lesson in not worrying, leaning on God through His Son Jesus Christ to meet my family's needs. it is AMAZING to say the least, and i am appreciating the experience.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
delicious string beans!
is it "string beans" or "stringed beans"? i'm not too sure. either way, this recipe is an absolutely delicious and easy one that i stumbled upon one day while frustrated with canned beans, and finding a lone pack of frozen beans in the back of the freezer just waiting to be experimented with. after this, i will NEVER go back to eating ANY string/ed beans out of a can again! these are so tasty that i'll make up a batch every now and again just to munch on when i'm hungry. they are that good (and healthy for you too!) you will need:
1 bag of frozen string/ed beans
2 tbsp butter
salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste
in a sautee pan, OR a regular frying pan (which i use cus i'm not fancy) simply thaw out the beans over high heat and once the water is mostly evaporated, add butter. stir well to coat the beans with butter, and then add the seasonings to taste. cook until slightly crisp, about 5 minutes over high heat. serve immediately.
you can always cook the beans longer to make them crispier, or shorter to make them softer. i like a really crisp bite to mine so i actually cook mine until a few of them are overcooked (about 7 minutes in all on high heat), then i just blend them all well and serve. delicious!
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Friday, August 3, 2012
sweet basil and my green thumb...
so, my green thumb has been accidentally triggered, and lately i'm itching to be a gardener. now, anyone who knows me knows that as much as i love plants, i kill them all within 6 months so it hasn't been my uhm...hobby to grow them. but, this past few weeks has me rethinking my assumptions about myself and willing to give gardening/growing indoor plants another try. where did this spontaneous interest come from? well i'm happy you asked!
first, i went to visit my cousin and saw that she has these absolutely beautiful bamboo plants, which i asked her to teach me how to care for them. she gave me some great pointers and some plant food to start off with. although i haven't found any bamboo plants to start with (usually the .99 cent stores around town carry them for .99 per stalk, but of course now that i'm interested in growing them from scratch no one has any!), i have been plotting on starting my very own bamboo garden as soon as i get my hands on some of the stalks.
in the meantime, i went out into the backyard, intending on dumping over one of the flower pots back there, to give away the pots, only to see that my basil plants from last year dropped seeds and resprouted for me this year! ive been super excited about having a fresh basil plant this year unexpectedly, but my "gardener" senses have been tingling since, and for the last 24 hours i've been trying to figure out how i can ensure that my basil plants grow again next year, this time on purpose. after consulting my green thumb mother and cousin, i've decided that simple is best. since i can't collect the seeds (because they're so small and i can barely see them), i'm just going to pull the plants when the season is over, dry them upside down (IN the flower pot), and when the stalks dry out totally and begin to break down (this winter), i'm going to sift the top layer of soil and then cover it all with a protective layer over the winter. better safe than sorry, and now that i'm on the hunt for my bamboo, i really want to ensure that my basil grows next year.
in addition to my basil, i purchased from the grocery store a full jade plant, which is beautiful. i do not have luck with jade plants but i'm going to give this one a real try. i also received from freecyle another jade plant and aloe plant, but after nearly killing them both, they're growing pretty slowly. after nearly doing them in though, my green thumb has learned a lesson or two and they're *slowly* coming back to life.
i also decided to snatch up some of my mothers iris seeds before my sister comes up to nj to bring her belongings back to her home in the south. i figure my mom has had these plants for a long time, and to be able to grow my own from hers is some sappy mother daughter love thing that will keep a bit of her with me every day. in the iris plant is a wild growing morning glory, which i love, so i took some of it by the root and planted it with the iris seeds, and i hope it too will catch for next spring and grow up the side of my home. she also gave me a pot of this really shallow *but beautiful) grass like plant that i've repotted in the bottom of a flower pot saucer in hopes that next year it will bloom fully and cover the saucer in a carpet like growth.
my little garden is just that *little* but i am so excited about it LOL. i feel like a new mom. i'm praying that i've planted everything right and it all takes root and next spring will give me a little garden in the city. and to think, all of this greatness started with just a bamboo idea and some accidentally sprouted sweet basil!
i'm probably going to be the martha stewart of plants at this rate! i can't wait...
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Friday, June 29, 2012
it looked so good i had to take a picture!
today's lunch was a veggie burger with mozzarella cheese on a 100 calorie bun with a dab of ketchup, romaine lettuce, tomato and onion. i also had a drop of italian dressing on the side to sop up with my veggies. it was delicious. my only regret is that i didn't have another--altogether the entire meal was only 250 calories and after about 2 hours, i was hungry again. LOL. but it was good. i really love the morningstar farms veggie burgers simply because at bj's they are very affordable (9.99 for a box of i believe 20 burgers). i eat them for lunch maybe three times per week, and they are satisfying, even if digested pretty quickly. and for only 100 calories per patty, i don't feel cheated.
good news to report! i'm down 8 pounds in 2 months, 6 of those pounds can be attributed to me following the carbohydrate addict's diet (which i have tweaked some and it really works well for me). i refuse to sit around starting any new habits that are uncomfortable for me or long term "undoable", and this "diet" has proven to be the first one i've ever been on that does not feel like a diet AT ALL. so needless to say, i am very happy to have been blessed by learning about the diet.
now i just have to incorporate more exercise into my regimin and i believe i will be good to go. i have been searching but so far have not been able to find a dance video that is easy to do and fun on my cable network. i'll definitely keep looking though...i'm on a roll and don't want to stop!
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Friday, June 8, 2012
if i knew then what i know now...
as a sufferer of hypothyroidism, ive been able to control most of the negative side effects that i have, but there's one that really bugs me, and for years i have not been able to control it...dry skin. my skin has been terribly dry for as long as i could remember, and sometimes it gets so bad that the skin on my face begins to get leathery, cracked and tender, and actually flakes away. it has been the worst, and i've tried over twenty products over the years to try and improve my skins condition. the issue with doing this however, has always been that you just in general have to be careful about what products you use--some of them can cause severe reactions, and worsen the condition. for about a year and a half (since ecobaby was born actually), ive been using lanolin for my terrible skin, figuring that if it could help cracked nipples from breastfeeding, it could help cracked skin from the dry winter weather and hypothyroidism. well i was right, to a point. the problem with the lanolin was that i had to apply it three times per day to have continuously soft and supple skin, it was thick and sticky to apply, and often left my face glossy looking for up to two hours, sometimes longer. but since it was the best option that i had, it was what i used. at least it somewhat controlled the flaking, and took away the itch. well! one day, while surfing the web, i just happened to come across an article explaining the way commercial lotions work. the article was so well written, and made quality lotions out to be heroes for people with extremely dry skin. it was a great article, but i was afraid to try out anything else other than my lanolin. fast forward two weeks later. i received in the mail a freebie packet that i had signed up for the month earlier. i had basically forgotten about the packet, and since it was a surprise packet, i wasnt sure what i was going to get (but me being the "if its free its for me" type, didnt mind the surprise). well lo and behold, the packet was full of facial care items, toiletries and lotions. so i took my chance and tried one by nivea.
it didnt melt my face off.
but...it also wasnt the absolute best. a few hours later, my face was dry and itchy. so i thought to myself, well nivea is top of the line and its not working for me, then there must be little hope for my face...little affordable hope anyway.
my face eventually got so tight, itchy and dry that i went to wash it and apply my lanolin...but i couldnt find it. ecobaby had gotten to it clearly, and thrown it somewhere. with a dry, tight, itching face i had no choice...
i ran into the bathroom, and slathered on my face the closest thing i could...my husbands dial nutri skin lotion.
i brought these huge bottles of dial nutri skin lotion for .99 each at a super sale shop rite was having, and i had 2.00 off coupons...so i racked up. and in over a year, had never used the stuff.
what in the world was wrong with me?!
this stuff IMMEDIATELY calmed my face down, IMMEDIATELY moisturized it, and IMMEDIATELY softened my skin. the next morning, my skin was STILL moisturized! it lasted through my sleep! i felt so good i didnt wash my face (dont judge me) until that night...and it wasnt until i washed my face that i needed a new application. so i generously applied it.
the next day, my flaky skin was gone. after about a week, i noticed that not only was my skin OBVIOUSLY improving in health and feel, but there were no adverse reactions. it has a light fresh scent, is non greasy/oily and is a pretty great deal at about 7.00 for a huge bottle (maybe 32 ounces?).
i officially fell in love.
now i use the stuff every day, all over my body, and cannot believe how clear my skin is getting, how much better it's feeling and how much better it looks. all the time the solution was right under my nose.
why didnt someone tell me about dial nutri skin lotion a year ago?! i could've saved myself some pretty painful days, but better late than never...this stuff is my new best friend!
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
the carbohydrate addicts diet.
so, i picked up from my freecycle list, the book "the carbohydrate addicts diet", upon the recommendation of the freecycler that it may help me in my weight loss journey, as her husband has been able to keep 50 pounds off his frame for well over two years with it. so i thought i'd read it, and if it sounded feasible for me, give it a shot. why not?
the basis of the diet is changing around your eating habits so that you consume all carbs at night, therefore curbing hunger, overeating and fat storage by preventing carbohydrates from triggering the release of the hunger signaling chemical insulin. eventually the benefits of the diet lead to insulin being properly produced and used, less sugars in the blood, and weight loss and better health. i've read over 100 reviews about the diet and it seems possible and sound for many people, especially those who like me, have a dependency on carbs. it makes sense to me.
today was my second complete day of following the diet. i will admit, already the idea of no carbs for breakfast and lunch was a huge turnoff...which is probably just a testament to how utterly addicted to carbs i truly am. both days i had a bacon and egg breakfast with a cup of coffee (ok i cheated and added 1 tsp of sugar to my coffee) and a bottle of water to wash everything down with. the meal filled me for about two hours, and then i was getting really hungry again. but since i eat breakfast around 10am...i only had an extra hour to go until lunch, and it passed quickly.
at lunch today, i had a HUGE salad of lettuce, olives, red beets and 1/2 a tomato sliced. i added my usual amount of dressing (which was the standard serving size). i know cottage cheese has carbs, and the book says that as long as the carb amount is below 4g per meal, we can wing it. so wing it i did. i had about 1/3 a cup of cottage cheese with my salad, which was about 3g of carbs. and i topped it off with deli ham. it was delicious and actually filled me up. or maybe i was just that hungry (when im hungry liver tastes delicious). i drunk 2 more cups of water and felt pretty good. i was thinking of adding tuna to the mix, but since i had tuna and asparagus YESTERDAY, i didnt want to eat it again. too much tuna is really no good for anyone, with all the chemicals in the waters these days.
so anyway...i made it for another 2 hours or so, and then i was really getting hungry again. it's interesting how i can be really full, and then the food just seems to burn off instantaneously, leaving me feeling REALLY hungry. anyway...after another hour, i felt as if i hadn't eaten all day, so i made another salad...same exact way. so yeah, that gave me 6g of carbs for lunch. not too bad, it still only amounts to about 2% of the daily recommended intake. another 2 glasses of water...and i was held over just fine until dinner.
i have to interject here. technically, by eating the second salad, i broke the rule of strictly 3 meals a day. but reading the thyroid diet (you can purchase it here), i learned that (and tried and find that it works for me) people with hypothyroidism (me), should always eat at least 5, preferably 6, small meals per day. so i did not feel bad for tweaking that part of the book and eating the second salad.
so dinner came, and because my husband was late coming home today, dinner was not made. it was supposed to be fried fish, green salad and spanish rice, a dish that we absolutely love. since i cannot fry fish, it was up to him to do it...he came in too late so dinner plans crashed. tomorrow ill just bake the fish. anyway, that left me getting really hungry. so i decided to just make my favorite immediate fix--a good ole bowl of frosted flakes. i had the normal amount i eat, one full bowl. i topped it off with 2 cookies and a half glass of milk. because i didn't eat any fruit, i also chomped into a big ole wedge of delicious pineapple.
now, for those who dont know, i have a steel plated stomach. i can eat a myriad of foods in one sitting and not get sick. so pineapple, cereal, cookies, milk, seltzer water and olives all on the same plate is right up my alley.
i felt stuffed afterwards. this was at about 8pm. since the diet said to make sure to finish everything from the last meal within the hour, i did that, and felt pretty ok.
now, i'm slowly starting to feel myself get hungry again. eek! i know im going to break the one hour rule, just because i can't go to bed hungry.
as i see, im the person that cuts corners. due to my thyroid illness, i have to be careful with the way i eat. so i figured maybe (as many of the reviews i read suggest), that i could tweak the diet to fit my individual needs. instead of eating meat and fat all day, the idea is to eat my meat and eggs for breakfast, and once every few days, have a slice of low carb bread with it, and some butter, and maybe a touch of low sugar jelly. then to eat a huge thing of veggies for lunch, with lean meat, or seafood. this way, i am not depriving myself of my veggies for the day. then, when the evening comes, have my dinner early (this is easy because its summer), flesh it out really well, add at least 4 servings of fruit to it, have my regular meal and whatever goodies i want without the guilt. despite switching the meals so that carbs are always saved for the end of the day, i have to make sure i eat veggies and fruits too.
someone in one of the reviews said that she could not go absolutely with no carbs all day long, so she tweaked it to have a small serving of carbs for breakfast some days, and then none for lunch, and only a small serving for dinner on the days she had them for breakfast. on the days she has no carbs for breakfast, she treats herself liberally for dinner. she said this satisfies her way more and she's still maintaining her weight loss. so it can be an idea that if this works for me, i can have some tweaking too, with strict moderation, just to keep my thyroid at a healthy place. since there are some limitations to what i can eat anyway with thyroid issues, a menu is paramount daily.
also, the book has recipes for low carb breads, which are just fine to eat during the day. i find that in general, it's a great idea to REALLY start experimenting with recipes on this sort of lifestyle change. there are TONS of recipes that are low carb that people can eat for breakfast and lunch. and considering that most americans eat no fruits and veggies daily, it wont exactly kill them to hold off with eating certain veggies and some fruits until dinner.
i know two people personally (not including the freecycler who gave me the book) who have been on similar menu plans and it has worked for them. one person is an old college teacher, who lost 190 pounds on this exact diet, and has kept it off going on maybe 15 years now. the second person is my neighbor, who says she follows the diet and she feels alot better, at the recommendation of her doctor (who did not recommend the book, but recommended a similar style of eating--limiting carbs to 1 meal per day). she admitted to falling off the 1 carbie meal per day bandwagon, but is now considering trying it again).
this may not be such a bad idea for me.
my results are especially promising. between yesterday and today...ive lost 1.4 pounds. today was the lowest weight reading ive had in WEEKS. and i had to lose the weight because i weigh myself wearing the same thing daily, and the scale has never been so low. also, i immediately noticed that i have more energy. im not sluggish and i dont need naps during the day anymore. also, i know this is tmi...but im going to say it anyway. today my bowels moved the best they have in months. this is an immediate change.
the only downside is that i have to break up the strict 3 meals per day rule. i simply have been advised NOT to go that long between meals, it can wreak havoc on my metabolism. so i will not. still losing 1.5 pounds and cutting all of the corners i did yesterday sounds as if i can definitely tweak this diet.
i'm going to shop later this week for the ingredients to make the low carb bread, and im definitely going to search around for low carb recipes. i have to flesh out my breakfast and lunch more if this is something that may help me out. funny, but ive been praying for God to help me find the encouragement to cook and dibble dabble with recipes more. welp, here it is--the perfect reason to do just that.
i would have NEVER thought my carb intake could've been the cause of alot of my ill. here i am blaming my thyroid for the difficulties losing weight. but the more i think about it, the more i AM recognizing a correlation between my carb intake and weight gain, exhaustion after eating and yes, being hungry relatively quickly after eating.
i will definitely be reporting my progress with this dietary change regularly. with the way i'm going, i may even add a new label LOL. "dieting101" or something LOL. anyway, i'm just thankful to God for allowing freecycle to once again be the way to a blessing. even if this isnt exactly for me (and ill know within a few weeks if it is or not), ill never look at carbs the same, simply because of how good i feel.
any feedback about this diet, or others like that is appreciated....i'm definitely going to see where this road takes me!
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Monday, June 4, 2012
martha, martha, martha!
so, i love martha stewart. well, let me correct myself. i have an ever growing admiration for martha that may be somewhat borderline obsessive. she definitely keeps me on my toes and encourages me to do my job as a stay at home mom as best i can: just two days ago, after reading the latest issue of her magazine (which i got for free via !!) and seeing a particularly pretty picture of some its-never-quite-as-easy-to-make-as-it-sounds-or-looks decoration she put in a window, i decided to clean my windows. now...granted, i only cleaned one (and got exhausted in the process), and it was the smallest window in my home (the kitchen window over the sink), but! i cleaned that window so well that martha would've certainly been proud of me. as a matter of fact, i cleaned that window so well that later in the day when i came downstairs and entered the kitchen, i got scared because i thought someone had lifted it up to break in! of course that hadn't actually happened, it was just so spotless that it LOOKED like the pane had been lifted. needless to say, my window certainly looks good enough to have a cameo in martha's awesome magazine with all of the other perfectly pictured windows.
my admiration for all things martha is growing at the speed of light. i've now found her show on tv, and i watch it in my morning lineup. she's funny, because her OCD always kicks in on her guests, but she's always very proper about it. i always giggle at and now look forward to her interrupting guests to move on to the next tidbit of info in her oh-so-martha way. i LOVE the way she always loads her guests up with freebies! i also got a recipe for a cake on the show. one that looked so easy to make and delicious when it was done that i'd wondered where i'd gone wrong at not learning how to bake from the womb. of course, i won't be making the cake, but she certainly made the baker in me stir, if only for five brief minutes.
one thing she did teach me, that i will be using from now on, is to think outside of the box, and to not be afraid to experiment (especially with foods--which im always terrified to do). the other day, i had crackers with cream cheese, ham and olives. that's something i would have NEVER thought to eat. but i tried it (thank you martha) and it was pretty good! im even considering experimenting with making homemade breads.
hmph. i am now a martha stewart fan. i have learned to make soil healthy, make no knead pizza dough, and how to make clam soup. whether or not i will ever put these things to regular use in my life remains to be a mystery, but i do feel like martha would certainly approves that i've learned.
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Face it, if it really worked, everyone would choose fast weight loss. Why suffer through months of rigorous exercise and restricted diet when you could drop your excess weight off like a snake shedding its, (admittedly loose and lumpy) skin?
Kieren Perkins, Australian Olympic swimmer and motivational speaker is fond of saying:"If I could have won over 100 meters, I would never have become a long distance swimmer - no one would. I just kept swimming till everyone else stopped". You have to do as much as as it takes for as long as it takes to achieve the result you need.
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But fast fat loss can work - if you have only a few kilos to lose and normally are not overweight.
Some people can win the fat loss race over the short, fast distance. These dieters are generally those who have put on a few kilos over the holidays or for some reason have broken from their normally balanced diet for a few weeks and have therefore gained, say 3-5 unwanted kilos.
If this is your scenario, you can take up with a reputable fast weight loss diet purveyor, drink some powdered shakes and packet soups in place of eating small, balanced meals, munch on some highly nutritious protein bars, get rapidly to your goal weight, then eat as you normally are used to and keep the weight off. Fast weight loss will work for you.
Fast diets are also useful for folk who have a truckload of weight to lose. Sometimes you just don't know where to begin and need a bit of a kick start. To undertake such a diet under these circumstances means that you can actually see a significant amount of weight come off at the beginning of your diet and this can give you the encouragement you need to embark on a sensible and slow weight control program for the long haul.
The diet you need to undertake for fast weight loss, be it a meal replacement type diet or a low carb diet, will not be easy to stick to. This type of diet requires iron hard discipline to maintain.
The reason many people do not recommend a low carb diet, for example, is that it goes against the eating patterns most of us have had for a lifetime. Imagine dinner without a choice of potatoes, bread, rice or pasta. Actually you don't have to imagine; you can live it for real if you choose a low carb diet.
Slow losing weight is easier to keep to, but only after you have retrained your brain in eating habits and portion control. Also consider that your tastebuds need time to be weaned off the heady flavours of fat, salt and sugar.
Cravings for saturated fat and sugar hits will diminish and all but disappear over time if you give your slow weight loss diet a chance to work.
The trouble is, we all want fast results, generally for minimum effort. I would humbly suggest that if you crave fast results, begin with some sort of fast weight loss diet, stick to it for 3-4 weeks, then switch to a slow weight loss diet, wherein you practice preparing and portioning your own food, so that you know exactly how slow weight loss can work for you.
If you reach a plateau in your diet, consider swapping briefly back to a fast weight loss option to push yourself along again.
Whether you choose the fast or slow weight loss option or a combination of both, the trick is not in your ability to lose weight, which is hard enough, but in keeping weight off, which will be utterly impossible unless you develop an excellent diet and exercise program for life.
It is simple. It is not easy - you have to really want it in order to succeed. But you do really want it, don't you?


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Tim's arrival has allowed Dr. Briggs to return to teaching full time and he has the real-time/embedded students engaged in programming the FPGAs. We are happy to have his focus returned to our students! Over the last week, his office has once again been taken over by long conversations with students about research projects and current technology news.
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Last night when we were driving home i just kept thinking about how honored I feel that God has allowed me to meet too many incredible people. Every day amazing things happen and just when I think we have met all the cool people here, we meet more!!
R's wife is reading the Book of Mormon and wants us to come teach her about it. We talked to someone we are teaching's son and gave him a Book of Mormon Anyway, I guess his wife saw it in the car and started reading it. We went over last night and chilled with her and got to know her and she was super genuine and kind and it was nice, she also let me sit in the loungy chair.
Then a different day we were just driving down the street and trying to find people to teach and there was a lady mowing her lawn and she has an autistic daughter. But we finished mowing her lawn for her and taught her about how after we die and are resurrected we will all have perfect bodies and no one will have like learning disabilities or anything! She was happy that we came and so were we. At first we were like hesitant to visit but then we just embraced the awkwardness. I have found that to be successful. Even when you are uncomfortable, just pretend you are good and know what's up.
Last week we were so eXcited because so many people came to church and some of them were the B's and their brother who isn't a member. So we visited them and taught a lil lesson to them with a member . I am also impressed by Hermano B's faith and testimony that he knows prayers healed his son. Last time we came he was sick but the father has been praying a ton and the son is getting better.
Okay another lesson was with a guy who lives in white salmon. We have been visiting him for a few weeks and he is too kind and always willing to listen. This week he told us that he told someone he had been meeting with us and she told him he shouldn't. He was really confused and was like they are really nice to me. And we explained that really the truth will always have opposition like elder korbridge talked about. He really understood it and he is sincerely praying for an answer about what is true and what isn't. He's cool though. And from a really cool sounding city in Mexico.
Would you please send me a picture of like Mexico. Like where the cities are please. Like a map. Hahaha everyone says where they live and I usually just nod and I'm like ohhhhhh cool!
Yesterday at church Hermana V compared our lives to avocados. I like avocados so I thought it was interesting.
And last night at like 8:30 we stopped by someone that just got baptized in the Dalles then moved to California and now lives in parkdale. Anyways, we visited him and his father in law. His father in law told us he wants to get baptized! And C– the recent convert–is just awesome. He has such a light and enthusiasm for life. And it was after that lesson that I reflected and thought about really how God has entrusted me to teach some really precious souls. Well, everyone is precious to God. But I just feel blessed to teach the people of Oregon the simple gospel truths that can allow people to reach their full potential.
Also my most recent motto is to be curious. That's been my motto for a while but now I just finally realized it is my motto. Hahaha
I love this work. I know it's true. I know god loves us all a lot and he literally is always ready to help. Thanks for helping me in my life. I love you all.


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omg i totally forgot!!… after Dinner at Kampung Daun the night before..
we went clubbing!
We were brought to this club called Embassy… one of the famous clubs in Bandung.
we drank n drank n drank and danced a bit…
eh? but i dont club!
and i dont drink!
but i think i drank some long island.. then another long island..
then played games too! lol…
and all got quite drunk.. ahha
then I kept drinking vodka vodka vodka vodka vodka… cos i kept losing in the game
then in the morning.. we were all acting like crazy in the bus while on the way to hotel..
and wassup Slinky! ahhaa
Just skyped with Slinky who is now at Melbourne studying.