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Posted by Gaylord Campbell

Moving wasn’t something we really did because we wanted to, we had to for my husband’s new job. I really miss my family but I went to http://www.wildbluedeals.com/satellite-internet/oklahoma/m/muldrow/ after we got settled to ensure I’d at least be able to email them and keep tabs with my sister’s blog (she’s got a new baby so she posts pictures all the time.) I actually like this new town although it’s smaller than I’m used to and I’m going to start looking for part time work once the boys start school. I don’t think I’ll have trouble making friends through church and all that but I think the biggest challenge is going to be finding a way to fill the void that I feel now that my family is so far away. I love them so much and they were such a big part of my daily life it’s really going to be an adjustment getting used to them not being around as often as they were when we lived just down the street, you know?

Tags: move, pictures, school

My old high school buddies have been talking about our upcoming retirement years. Some of them are suggesting they might move away to live in another country after they retire and sell their homes here in the U.S. I find the idea of moving away intriguing, but I have so much family here that I cannot imagine wanting to live elsewhere.

Still, the idea of living someplace where you walk out of your front door and gaze across a sand beach to a sunrise over sparkling blue waters does make me wish I could move to Mexico or a Caribbean Island. I even starting investigating the possibility of buying a nice condo near a Mexican resort to have for most of the year, with plans to travel back to the U.S. to see family and celebrate holidays.

With the idea of moving to Mexico I searched online for International Movers to investigate the cost of moving out of the country and to read up on any tips or special considerations we would have to make to move.

Obviously, International Moving is not going to be the same as moving locally. For one thing, you have to deal with Customs agents and restrictions against certain items being allowed across the border. For example, you cannot take plants across the border. But there are a lot of other restrictions that I had not considered and was surprised to learn. For example, you cannot take a Persian rug into Mexico.

To move to the Caribbean Islands is different from Mexico. You have a lot of International Shipping restrictions. No wine or alcohol, no drugs – but I mean personal medical prescriptions, not the illegal stuff – and no guns or ammunition – not even for personal protection. That concerns me – with all the stories of cartels and violence, especially in Mexico, I would not want to be a new, American resident with no means to protect myself and my family.

Just when you think that reality shows can not get any worse, they put on a show called “Swamp People” on the History Channel. I don’t understand why the History Channel runs reality shows like this instead of shows about, well, gee, maybe some HISTORY???

Its not like we have a shortage of HISTORY.

But this show about swamp people is just chasing a couple of Cajun rednecks around the swam watching them kill things. This is not entertainment, people. This is disgusting butchering of alligators, snapping turtles, catfish and gar fish. It’s not hunting. It’s not sport. It is butchering animals in front of a camera crew. Big deal!

I watched this awful show just once to give it a chance. It is horrible and I doubt that I would ever watch it again unless tied to a chair in a torture chamber and my eyes held open with toothpicks. It won’t get another 1 minute of my time if I can help it and it actually bothers me thatanyone does watch it.

The new Chrysler commerical is awesome. It starts out with some kickin music – I really want to find out who does that tune. It shows little vignettes of typical Detroit scenery, and then at the very end it shows the new Chrysler 300 looking sharp. I like that car a lot – it has such a gangster look. I would think it was more Chicago than Detroit – even the scene in the commercial could easily be streets in Chicago. But, of course, GM is in Detroit. At the very end of the commercial there is a short message that says, “Imported from Detroit.” Woot! Great commercial.

Until I accepted this position with my company, I had always worked for small businesses. There is a big difference between the owner of the business balancing the company checkbook and have a Vice President of Finance with a staff of accountants and bookkeepers handle your finances. The same thing goes for marketing and advertising. In a small business, there is often the feeling that an Advertising Agency is too expensive and that the owner should be able to do all the advertising and public relations work.

But honestly, unless that small business happens to be in the advertising industry, why does an owner have to know everything that the professionals in an advertising agency know from years of training and experience? How can a small business owner be expected to have all the business contacts and networking sources to launch an effective advertising campaign? How does a small business owner know how to measure the effectiveness of that campaign? How much money does the small business owner actually end up saving – or losing – by making the wrong advertising decisions?

When you have a very small business that is well established and earning a lot of personal referrals, maybe you do not need an actual advertising agency. But if you are more than just a few employees or you are a new company trying to get as many new customers as possible, using an agency makes a lot more sense. The people at the advertising agency are professionals at their craft – just as you are expected to be the professional or the expert in your own line of work. Smart business owners take advantage of the skills and talent that can be hired for specific projects and don’t try to do everything by themselves.