Have a Better Life

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Are you worried about getting old? Are you worried about the gray hairs you will have? Some people are really worried about getting older, but it is the normal evolution of life. When we are born, we are meant to to grow-up, to be an adult and to grow old. Most people will undergo the getting old phase unless something bad happens and they do not reach that phase.

One of the most obvious sign of the getting old process is the white hairs that begin to grow on different age stages. Aside from the hair, we notice wrinkles and lost of elasticity on the face skin. Many women become very complexed with the age signs and search help on anti aging products and surgeries. Clinics like Knightsbridge Laser Clinic offer services like face lifting and other anti aging treatments. There are a lot of people that get paranoid with the aging process. They just don’t accept the fact that aging is part of their live, it is a natural process.

Health problems is also common during aging process. Arthritis, joint pain, diabetes, overweight, Alzheimer and Parkinson are only some of the conditions that usually happen. It is important to keep a regular exercise routine, drink lots of water and eat healthy foods. Regular blood tests are essential to control blood sugar, cholesterol or anemia. Osteoporosis is also a common problem, so the regular intake of milk or calcium supplements are very important. For those with lactose intolerance there are alternative products that can be taken to control osteoporosis.

Getting old or aging is a constant process throughout our life. When we are ten we want to be twenty. But when we are forty we want to be twenty again. Getting old can cause anxiety especially when people refuse to accept that they are getting old. Being old is an unknown and scary world that most people are afraid. People want to live until they are 100 years but they don’t want to go under the aging process.

Friday!! The school routine is back and believe it or not it’s tiring. Both my kids go to school at the same time in the morning, but they have different leaving schedules every single day. I look like a cab from one place to another.

The weekend is here, but for those blogging and working online there is no weekend. I’m always checking my email to see what has arrived. Who knows I receive a job offer and I miss the timeline.

Sometimes I feel like searching for flight deals, and take my family to…some place.

Nevertheless, I can’t complaint. I’m doing what I always wanted to do, work from home, take care of the children, the house. After 22 years working in an office, I feel the need to be at home and have a different life. And believe me, I’m having a better life now.

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Are you one of those people that after getting up the next thing they want to do is drinking coffee? Welcome to the club then.

It was eighteen months ago that my coffee machine broke up and I had to deal with the no coffee idea. It was hard, still is so from time to time, after dropping the kids at school I stop in a coffee shop to drink a coffee. Other times I make instant coffee at home which by the way causes me a lot of internal problems.

Sometimes I think I could live without coffee but when an headache strikes, I need my coffee. I use coffee as a migraine headache treatment. Before taking any pain killers I always try coffee and most of the times it makes the trick. Why? Because caffeine make the brain veins to open and allow the blood to flow more easily. This was the explanation given to me when my son had migraines. I was told I could give him a small quantity of coffee to make the migraine go away.

Can you imagine your day without coffee? Does coffee do any good to your headaches?

During the past five years my friend Mary has dedicated her free time to make hand made products. Jewelry, decoupage and other related items. Finally she was invited to participate in a trade show. She is so thrilled with the idea but she has a lot of work ahead of her before the show.

Having a stand in a trade show requires a lot of preparation. She has to think about everything she wants and even take some suggestions. There are some services and furniture that needs to be requested like:

• electricity
• choose the trade show flooring
  
• furniture
• trade show carpet
• light boxes
• shelves to show her products
• logo mats
• table covers
• choose a logo canopy if she is using a canopy
• literature holders

etc. etc.

She is very busy but she’s happy.

Doing what we like is the first step to Have a Better Life.

This winter we spent too much money in energy to keep the house warm. One of our biggest problems is that we have major air leaks around the windows frames. Now that we have a kind of warm weather we have been thinking about what we should do to keep the house fresh during the future hot summer days.

My husband has a co-worker who is going to make a complete makeover on his house just to be able to control the heat during the summer and the cold during the winter. Once he has already his walls adjusted to the temperature changes with fiber glass, he is thinking about putting energy efficient windows and frames. He saw the Penguin Windows site and he was really convinced that having appropriate windows he can control the inner house temperature and save money on the gas and electrical bill. Energy efficient windows are also easy to clean and fashionable, giving the house an attractive look and at the same time UV protection.

Although he has to make some investments upfront, he believes that he will pay it really soon with the reduce expenses he is having this Summer and the fresh summer house he will have compensates the investment.

The chance to have a better life is a couple weeks ahead for me. I’m jobless, with no income and things are getting tough. However, I’m having a great time being a housewife and a full time mother. I’ve been doing some writing on the net but the income is very low, there are no part-time jobs around here so, if I want income I have to work full time, 8 hours a day.

This job will be in another city, so I’ll be driving everyday around 30 minutes, I won’t be able to pick up my kids at school and one week I’ll arrive home at 7pm and the other week at 8pm. I don’t like this at all!!! But I really need the money to pay my debt. My credit card is on the limit, I checked credit score online and the values were not good. I also have my payday loan that needs to be paid.

I’m not happy at all. I love my kids, I want to follow them more closely but money is always the issue. Without money we can’t have a decent life and that is not good for my kids. Earning money online and stay at home is my dream, but it looks like I still have a long path to reach to the point of having a full income working from home. Meanwhile, I’m all day away from home, my kids are school and then have to go to daycare centre because I can’t pick them up and my heart will hurt all day.

Like my husband’s say: It’s life.

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The name of my blog reflects what I am searching for: a Better Life. I worked full time for 22 years and this last couple years were a nightmare. I wrote about this in the past weeks so I’m not going to write again.

I’m jobless, I have no income but I’m happy. I already increased some weight (I was underweight), people say I look great, I’m calm, no stress and I’m happier. However, I’m taking some medication on my journey to cure my depression.

Getting rid of my job and abusive bosses were the biggest action I could take but my depression was already here and no natural sleep aids seemed to help me. I’m taking antidepressants but I’m sure it won’t be for a long time because I really am looking for a new future.

I would like to work from home and follow my kids closely, I hope I can get some income at home and be able to make my dream come true: be a WAHM.