Two Months Prior to Move

Yes, it just sank in that we are moving and I just began this blog to document it.  However, I haven't been sitting around not doing anything to prepare to move my business.

About the time my hubs had the job offer, I did a general search on facebook for friends in the USVI.  I sent every single one of them a friend request and what I considered a short-and-sweet message about  our family moving to Saint Thomas and I was looking to connect with others.   My message hit the stalker count on facebook and after being accepted by only two people, my facebook account was blocked from sending friend requests or swapping messages with people that were not my friends.  Of course, to agree to terms and get my account access back in two weeks, I had to delete all the open friend requests.  So much for spending an afternoon wasting time on facebook.  :)  Lesson learned that people do click the "I don't know this person outside of facebook" button even with a sweet message.

So, I have two people who could be resources.  One does has not responded to my initial message, my thank you for accepting my request message, or replied back to even one of the three comments I posted on her profile post.  So, I removed her today.  She had "booty pictures" for her profile and I am looking for quality, positive people.  You're still stuck on that "booty" comment aren't you?  I am not kidding.  She was standing facing backwards with her head and phone arched around her bum to take a photo into a mirror.  Booty.

Tip #1 If you are in business for yourself, who you follow and who follows you affects your business.  Go delete the celebrities, drama queens, and bullies who are not doing you any favors.  There are "unlike" options and "unsubscribe" buttons for a reason.  Use them.  I guarantee once you lose them you will gain all the better ten-fold.

Okay, what was I saying.  Oh yes, my two new friends on facebook....err one because I just ditched booty girl.  Ah, I have arrived at that moment when I think back on a popular verse from a movie..."There can be only one."

So, one.  She IS awesome!  An absolute blessing and God-send truly.  Her name is Trinity, so of course she is.  She has offered advice, feedback, assistance, and facebook friendship.  I would post her facebook link so you could friend her, too, she is so great.  But, I won't.  Go find your own helpful hero that lives an ocean away from where you live.  :D  Or you can pelter me with your questions at 3newlocals@gmail.com or comment below.  I'll send you back to this blog if the answer is already here (because, oh yes, more blog posts are coming and you.can.read) or I'll get back to you with my experience as I gain it.

Trinity has been ever so kind to me so you should definitely check her out!  I only found out today, after talking to her for the last month, that she, too, is an independent representative in a direct sales business.  See, God-send! www.beachbodycoach.com/tpreston13 or http://myshakeology.com/tpreston13

Moral of the story: A great connection can be found despite facebook's fancy algorithms.

Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Yeah, we're moving from Northeast Georgia to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.  My hubs accepted a grand promotion and transfer to the kind of place we dream of retiring.  We have long been the people of a "why wait" philosophy...why retire there when you can work there.  He was offered the job on December 8, 2012.  Thus, we have know for about a month.  It has taken us that month for it to sink in as truth.  Just a few days ago our definitive choice had words like "possibly" and "if" creeping in being smothered by doubt as we awaited communications from the big new boss.  Early yesterday, my hubs received THAT phone call that buried our doubts.  We are going to Saint Thomas and though our move date is not exact yet, we expect we will be flying to our new Island home in about six weeks.

But this blog is not going to be about his new job and all the decisions that we must quickly make to close out one house and open another (don't remind me that my Christmas tree is still up, along with the stockings on January 11, 2013).  For the last month at least, we have scoured the internet for rental listings, videos, blogs, tourism and essentially overloads of information in an attempt to prepare us for the unknown of becoming "three new locals" (husband, 6 year old daughter, and me).  In my focused attempts I have not been able to uncover any real information pertaining to moving my business or even doing business there.  I have never been a blogger, but I am an information geek...so I accept this mission to fill the gap!

So you see, I am one of those independent representatives from a direct sales company.  You know, home parties, catalogs, online orders, conferences, yada yada Ya-Ya!  I know I am not the first to have this experience of taking an independent home business that you have been working on for almost four years and uprooting it to an entirely different community and culture.  But like I said, I haven't been able to find anyone sharing that horror, so here we begin...life as three new locals.