THE $100 STARTUP

I wrote about a book called The Art of Non-Conformity back in September, which was right after we moved to the farm (you can see that post here).  I have been hugely inspired by the author, Chris Guillebeau, and I hope you take a moment to check out his blog.

I stumbled upon The Art of Non-Conformity whilst Joey & I were making some huge life-changing choices.  We decided to move to Joey's family's tree farm so he could work on music full-time, and so I could launch my website and have more time to concentrate on creative (and hopefully money-making) ventures (blogging, sewing, photography, etc...).

We weren't sure how it was going to work out, but here we are.  I'm working from home, which allows me to have plenty of time to work on my own projects in the afternoons/evenings.  Joey works on music from sunrise to sunset (more on this coming soon).  We've started gardening.  We get to travel.  And we're able to pay the bills.

Of course, we'd love to have more money.  But I don't think that ever changes, no matter how much income you have (mo' money, mo' problems).

Anyway...Mr. Guillebeau just published a new book.  The $100 Startup.  The book "shows you how to lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living."  Sound too good to be true?  It isn't.




I just ordered the book and I can't wait to start it.  I urge you to do the same (it's only $16 on Amazon!).

I hope that one day I can be completely self sufficient in a career that I hatched myself, and I'm hustling to try to make it a reality.  I hope you are doing the same!

THE JOY OF BOOKS

Beautiful.

(via This Isn't Happiness)

COOKIN'S AND BOOKIN'S

Since moving to the country, we have been preparing all of our meals at home.  And by "we have", I mean "Joey has".  I can clean some serious dishes though.    

It only took one week of living out here to realize how much we ate at restaurants (or not at all).  I have always been a coffee-for-breakfast kind of gal, but I'm starting to realize the benefits of eating a meal before 2:00pm.

We're looking forward to finding some local produce vendors and farmers markets, but until then we're trying to eat as fresh as we can.  Our meals are typically pretty colorful.  That down there is homemade salsa, homefried tostadas (don't hate), tons of fresh veggies, and some lean, ground turkey.  We don't eat no hooves around these parts.

We found this killer book when we were unpacking that my mom gave me about 3 years ago called "The Doctors Book of Food Remedies".

I have spent the past few days finding remedies for what might ail me.  Neck pain?  Need to consume more dark green and dark orange fruits and veggies.  Preventative tooth health?  More tea.  Hangovers?  Nothing special.  Just water and time.  Damn.  Anywhos...it's totally worth leafing through.  P.S. Vitamin C prevents everything.