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A Day in my Dream Life

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I think that if I truly desire to work for myself from the comfort of my home in the future, then it can only help me to get to that point if I envision what a day in the life of my dream job might be like.

Here’s how I think a typical day in my future dream life might go…

  • Wake up around 7am, spend around 30 minutes to an hour working out, then shower and get dressed for the day.
  • Make myself something healthy to eat for breakfast, perhaps a “green monster” smoothie.
  • After breakfast, head to the computer to start work. I think I’d have some sort of etsy type store open, so first thing would be to check for any new orders that need to be shipped and work on getting those ready. (probably get online to usps.com and schedule a free package pickup for those, just so I don’t need to leave the house!)
  • Once orders are ready to go, do a quick check of email to see if there’s anything that needs to be answered right away.
  • Next, spend time working on business related things; paid blogging or paid article writing, design work, work on creating things to be sold.
  • Lunch break, something healthy. Eat, then spend 30 minutes working on household chores; laundry, dishes, cleaning.
  • Back to work, check email and try to get everything answered and the inbox cleared out.
  • Spend an hour or so working on blogging, scheduling posts out in advance, working on projects for diy posts, etc.
  • Take a 30 minute break, get a snack, work on chores or go outside for a quick walk.
  • Spend the next hour and a half working on the etsy store, listing more items to be sold, creating things, packaging things, printing invoices to be filed. etc.
  • It should now be around 5 pm, time to start working on dinner. Work is now finished for at least a few hours.

I realized that this is a “dream” day, I have no actual idea what my typical day would be like if and when I do work for myself from home. I imagine that it probably wouldn’t be much like this; life would probably get in the way and I’d be working much later than 5pm, and that would be okay too. I realize that if I want to work from home that I would need to be flexible in my scheduling and making sure that I still have time to get everything done that I need do each day.

Some Things I Think About

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  • I think that if I didn’t bake so often.. then I wouldn’t have all these 30ish pounds to lose.
  • I think that I could give up on my creative hopes and dreams, and just work towards finding a “normal” job then I would quite possibly be making more money… but then I’m sure I would be completely miserable.
  • I think I could just choose any high paying career, go to school for it, and I would make lots of money. Maybe I’d even be good at what I do. But again, money will not buy happiness.
  • Sometimes I think that I must be flawed in some way, to be so strong willed and determined that I could make a living working from home; obviously that is not a goal of any ‘normal’ or ‘average’ people.
  • Sometimes I think that my marriage would work out better if I could just go work that 9-5 job and then come home, clean and cook, etc, without any complaints or desire for other people to help with things. Also, HECK NO, THAT’S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
  • I think it’d be nice to have a part-time housekeeper, cook, or a nanny. Or maybe one person that does all of those. Maybe a duplicate of myself.
  • I think my husband should be more supportative of what I do with my time, and my goals for the future. Or anything that I choose to do.
  • I think no one should have to give up on their goals or dreams, or even have to seriously consider doing so.
  • Sometimes I think that MAN, I REALLY LIKE THESE BULLET LIST POSTS. Ha.

Gettin’ Busy with Domains

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I’m sure I’ve mention somewhere on the line that I currently own 8 separate domains (8? Yes, completely true!) and that I saved myself a whole mess of trouble by setting up a WordPress Multisite Network. Well, I still had not  moved all of my domains onto the network, so I fixed that dilemma today. I also didn’t have email@domain.com email addresses set up for all the domains either, so I set those up and they will forward any email to my main email address, so that’s fixed too!

Lately, my main goals that are related to the crazy amount of domains that I own are: set up customized, reasonably good looking themes on all domains (okay to just focus on one at a time!), continue scheduling advance posts on pinkdiary.org like a crazy woman (I’d love to just be able to devote one day worth of work and getting posts done for a whole week!!) and focus on posting on my other domains so that they can grow in age and content too. If I could become superblogger and schedule advance posts on ALL my blogs and domains?? That would be amazing!!

I want to grow all these domains so that they may become a source of income for me in the future, that’s my main goal. I want to be able to successfully work from home, and being able to generate income (even if it’s just a tiny amount) would be a HUGE step in the right direction!

Thoughts on Opening a Bakery

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I have a huge sweet tooth and as a result, I do a lot of baking at home; most of the time I am baking cookies from scratch. I’m been tossing around the idea in my mind of opening a bakery sometime in the future, probably selling cookies and cupcakes and a few other things, but I really only ever make cupcakes with a store bought cake mix and store bought frosting.

I realize that I’m going to have to dedicate quite a bit of time to making cupcakes and frostings from scratch, practicing decorating skills, and testing out recipes to find what tastes the best, if I’m ever going to open a cupcake bakery. Also, I generally use margarine when baking and I realize that’s probably a huge no-no as far as cake baking and making buttercream frosting. I do know that while I’m not a huge fan of cream creese frosting in general, there are a ton of people who love that stuff, so I’ll have to try making it and hopefully get a few people to do taste testing.

I don’t know how big of a market there would be for gluten-free or vegan baked goods (it seems like everyone you find on the internet is vegan!), so I’d at least need to test out recipes and have a couple of good tasting vegan or gluten-free options available. I think the types of baked goods that you carry will really depend upon where you plan on opening a bakery.

A Baker’s Brown Sugar Dilemma

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If there’s anything at all that you should really know about me, it’s that I enjoy arts & crafts, and that I bake a lot (Like I’m seriously considering opening a bakery some time in my life). I’ve been baking 2 batches of cookies a week for quite a while now, just for my tiny little family of three. Yeah, that’s a lot of sugar, and yes, we do eat them all before the next batch is baked. Yes, that is a very sad but very true fact.

As you may be able to tell from the title of today’s post, I am out of brown sugar. This is a travesty! I’ve been working on one of those gigantic bags of brown sugar for probably 2 months and now it’s all gone. This upsets me because any cookie that I feel like baking right now needs brown sugar; oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter.. I think peanut butter cookies are my favorite right now, yum yums. Who feels like bringing this baker a bag of brown sugar?? Anyone??