So Blessed

Exited today for the first time in a very long time. I am so looking forward to this new business venture and I’m very optimistic that it will work out. I’ve been working from home for the past 3-½ years. I have to admit that my life became meaningless, as I had nothing to look forward to anymore. It gets boring to be at home all day, even though I have been privileged enough to have my baby boy with me all the time. I’ve always been very ambitious and for the past few years had absolutely no challenges as I’ve been in the scrap metal industry for over ten years now * yawn *.


We are leaving for Durban tomorrow to go and buy stock. We are going to open a clothing shop from my house. Luckily our new house is located on a busy street.

I’ve also involved the domestic worker and promised her a 10 % profit sharing, as she’ll mostly be the one selling the clothes. We are mostly going to target the black market. (Now this sounds like we are planning something illegal, he he).

I just woke up one morning with this idea, and my dear husband immediately gave his full support. Then we decided to throw out all our old clothes that we are not wearing anymore. Joyce (the domestic worker) then offered to sell the second hand clothing, and within a day every single thing was sold and we’ll be R2 500.00 richer at the end of this month. It seems this can become a profitable business, or rather, we hope it will be.

It will involve hard work though, like having to go to Durban about every weekend. (I HATE traveling by car).

Nonetheless we are very excited about this, and invite you to join us on this journey, as I’ll try to keep my blog updated as much as possible.

Enjoy your weekend!

I'm typing through tears of laughter. My husband has a very naughty cat, Smokey (Siamese cross). She's always up to some kind of mischief. About 30 min ago she killed a dove and brought it in to play with. Of course we took the dead bird and threw it away. Just now she came in and ran to hide under the bed, soaked! She was seen playing on the lawn by the pool just a few minutes ago, so she must've fell into the swimming pool! Hilarious!!

Reminds me of the other night when she was thrown out of the house and had to sleep outside in the cold. Chris (hubby) got fed up with Smokey playing around in the house and making a huge noise after 11pm when we all tried to sleep. Chris lost his temper and got up to go find the cat to scold her. Smokey ran away, Chris got more pissed off, Smokey ran into a room, Chris cornered her under a bed and caught her, Smokey hissed at Chris, Chris LOST it, Smokey flew out the front door (with Chris' help of course) It was an especially cold night. Smokey couldn't get back into the house as all the windows and doors were closed. Don't know where Smokey slept.

Next morning Chris felt bad about what he had done to his favorite, innocent, sweet Smokey. Smokey was missing. Chris was too proud to admit he felt bad so didn't want to make it obvious that he worries about where Smokey was. I called out to Smokey and heard the dogs bark. There she was sitting on the wall between the street and our house. She couldn't get past the wall to come home as the dogs wanted her for breakfast. I could see the relieve on Chris' face when he went to rescue Smokey!

Smokey behaved for a few days after that incident, but now is back to her old naughty self again. Maybe falling into the pool will keep her in tow for a while again now! (I get some kind of satisfaction when I think about her falling into the pool Ha ha)