I am a day late for "Happy Easter" since Easter (I recently heard and believe) is the least commercialized holdiay there is, plus living in Cyprus holiday marketing is not as intensive and in-your-face as in the US. In the US, every holiday is a reason for a sale, added discount or reason to eat out or buy a new car from President's Day to Martin Luther King Day to Boss's Day! Plus, Easter here is not until APril 27th so I will wish everyone Happy Easter again at the end of April! Last year giant Easter Eggs and decorations were strategically placed all over town so I should remember Orthodox Easter and hopefully excused for forgetting Latin Easter.
It is a beautiful time of year here - before the intense heat of summer and while people are still enjoying the sun rather than trying to avoid it. Tourists are starting to return and customers are starting to seriously consider making their home purchases in Cyprus. Parents want to get settled and situated before the new school year and retirees seem to want to move before the intense heat of summer so I am getting busier every day it seems - a good thing after the quiet of the winter!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
New Years Resolution Update
Still going strong with the resolution...down to 227lbs.
Lost 19lbs.
(Forgot to mention it in last post).
Lost 19lbs.
(Forgot to mention it in last post).
Happy Carnival
Now that the holidays are long gone and winter is nearly over things seem to be picking up.
We have all adapted to being in the Eurozone and things are starting to change. All of a sudden, I had many many enquiries and a lot of "hot prospects" looking into buying property in Cyprus which is great but the difficulty of running a business out of a home when there are tow boys - a 2 and a half year old and a 6 month old always looking for more attention than is possible, sometimes feels impossible. Don't get me wrong, one of the greatest things about being in Cyprus is the ability to spend so much time with my two boys and also helping my wife do what ever I can. If we would have continued living in the U.S. I would have had to spend much more time at work and on the road instead of the quality time I have now. We moved here because in the US we both may have had to work in order to afford the life style we were used to and afford two kids. Now getting paid in Euros is great too since I see the dollar hitting new "all time lows" every week.
We never thought that we both would be able to be around the kids all the time as we are now. Now our kids have two full time parents, the business has two full time agents, writers, search engine optimizers, property listers, social networkers, researchers, marketers and anything else that needs to be done everyday.
So, all around things are looking up: my business with home and property sales, the weather is getting better and now Carnival which is a ten-day period (28/2/2008 - 9/3/2008) of fun, eating and parties prior to the fifty days of fasting, before Easter. Enjoy Carnival Everyone!
We have all adapted to being in the Eurozone and things are starting to change. All of a sudden, I had many many enquiries and a lot of "hot prospects" looking into buying property in Cyprus which is great but the difficulty of running a business out of a home when there are tow boys - a 2 and a half year old and a 6 month old always looking for more attention than is possible, sometimes feels impossible. Don't get me wrong, one of the greatest things about being in Cyprus is the ability to spend so much time with my two boys and also helping my wife do what ever I can. If we would have continued living in the U.S. I would have had to spend much more time at work and on the road instead of the quality time I have now. We moved here because in the US we both may have had to work in order to afford the life style we were used to and afford two kids. Now getting paid in Euros is great too since I see the dollar hitting new "all time lows" every week.
We never thought that we both would be able to be around the kids all the time as we are now. Now our kids have two full time parents, the business has two full time agents, writers, search engine optimizers, property listers, social networkers, researchers, marketers and anything else that needs to be done everyday.
So, all around things are looking up: my business with home and property sales, the weather is getting better and now Carnival which is a ten-day period (28/2/2008 - 9/3/2008) of fun, eating and parties prior to the fifty days of fasting, before Easter. Enjoy Carnival Everyone!
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