HARVELLE'S!!

I had the pleasure of entering into the underground nightlife of Long Beach, CA recently.  I have been taking business trips to Long Beach pretty regularly for the last four years.  The group of co-workers usually sticks to the same venues, i.e. the Irish Pub, the Yard House, and the Rock Bottom.   You can bet we will be in one of these places sometime during the trip.   Well, we had some new comers with us and decided we needed to find something different.   We tried a few new places, but everything was pretty dead.   Finally, we found a new place!  Harvelle’s!  We had passed it many times on our treks around down town and never noticed it.  We knew we had left the hustle and bustle of the standard night life of Long Beach, left the younger crowd of patrons in the Congregation above, when we descended down the steep two level staircase to the bowels of the building. 

Selfish Responsibility

I was reminded the other day of a revelation I came to several years ago.   I had recently moved to a new town, had two very small children and started a new job while my husband had stayed in San Diego to finish out his nursing school year.  I was miserable, exhausted, alone and full of resentment.  I felt like I had all the responsibility of the finances, children, daily household chores while my husband just had himself to care for with little or no responsibilities.  While this was a temporary situation, nine months or so, it was such a difficult, stressful time for me that it impacted my entire view of life, relationships, family.  But most of all, it changed how I viewed myself.    

Retirement Planning

So, my friend, who is 19 years younger than me, invited me to a conference this past weekend.   This conference was sponsored by International Living and was basically to learn how to retire overseas, somewhere outside the U.S.  What a concept!   Just the thought of doing something like this is crazy, right?  Well, I have to admit, after attending the conference and workshops... maybe it's not so crazy afterall! The conference also focused on investing in property in other countries.   It was VERY interesting and informative.   We forget there are other options to the lives we are leading.   It was eye-opening, for sure.