Rainy Day Inspirational Read

I love articles about entrepreneurs who start from the gound up, and with creative ideas. Especially when it's Canadian. This is a great read for any aspiring female entrepreneur out there.

ps - where can I find information on inventory balance, or "science" as she puts it?

Keep Bizzy!

Berlusconi?

It's easy to have proper, or at least, a less cloudy perspective when looking from the outside, in. This kind of makes me question our own society, and the censors we're all subjected to, but choose to deny and carry on ignorantly. I mean, the guy owns, or co-owns a number of trusted media agents in Italy, of course he's going to be presented in a certain light. However, this CBC story itself might be propoganda that is deflecting something going on right now in our own country - pointing fingers at others while I subconsciously cling tighter to a manufacture ideal here at home?

... or I might just have to stop watching so many conspiracy documentaries.

Keep Bizzy.

Freedom 35

In life, things come up that prevent you from stocking away your savings every month - such as a big trip, buying a home, a car, etc. However, I think it's important to have an idea of how much of a financial cushion you'll want (and need) upon retirement age - and most importantly, a realistic plan to get there.

I like playing around with this savings calculator from time to time.

Keep Bizzy!

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"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."

Andreas Capellanus

Back, But Not The Same

My dearest blog, how I've missed you! Has it really been 5 months since I last wrote? Let me please say that for the most part it wasn't by choice, but lack there of! And I thought about you often!

We've safely arrived back from our whimsical journey throughout Europe - and when I say whimsical I really mean the most incredible, life altering, perspective changing, self-renewing, eye opening adventure I might ever know! We brought along our miniature laptop to update our readers of our endeavours along the way, but it died soon into our trip which left us with an added 5 lbs of weight only useful for charging our ipods; which by the way, miraculously survived somehow.

We were gone from June 11th, 2009 - September 4th, 2009. In that time we backpacked, couchsurfed, hosteled, WWOOF'ed, and mostly camped in all of 13 countries:

- Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Murrow, Limerick - we stayed in a Benedictin monastery for 4 days)
- France (Roscoff, Rennes, Le Mans, Paris, Dijon, Lyon, Marsailles, Nice)
- Italy (Versailles, Rome, Naples and Pompeii, Milan)
- Switzerland (Geneva)
- Austria (Vienna)
- Czech Republic (Prague)
- Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg)
- Denmark (Copenhagen)
- Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenberg)
- Norway (Oslo, Favang, Lillehammer)
- The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
- Belgium (Brussels, Brugges)
- Luxombourg (Luxombourg City, Mercsh)

As you can imagine, to discuss them all would be nearly impossible, especially when trying to interject all of the experiences, feelings, and all of those little moments that at the time seemed so unspectacular, but become the most endearing. I will post pictures as soon as I can.

This trip not only required a lot of planning, but also a lot of support from family, friends, and co-workers. We were so lucky to have so many people that understood how important this trip was for us. The way everything came together is a twist of fate that barely ever happens in real life. We know that, and it will never, ever be forgotten. I can put how I feel about this into three words - pay it forward. And I will.

One of the great things about being back is that I can now put this one accomplishment behind me and move onto the next thing! And there are so many things to come.

As always, stay Bizzy!