Lets help each other and both get what we need

Allow me to begin by introducing myself. My name is Jimmie, I am a 46 year old woman, I have severe rheumatoid arthrits and (as embarrasing as it is) I am, for the time being, on full disability. Believe me when I tell you that this is Not a possition I want to be in. If the choice were mine, I would be up by four every morning and on my first job by five. I would work a good ten or twelve hours and arrive home absolutely beat. I would feel good about my accomplishments on this day and look forward to doing it all over again tomarrow. This is what I say I would do because this is what I've always done. I guess I was fortunate, in this sence, to have found a career, in an industry (fire protection) that so inspired me, that I never doubted I would be doing the same thing for the entirety of my working life. Then in october of last year (2006) my "woking life" suddenly came to an abrupt halt. And it seemed that a huge part of what defined me was now gone. Now I don't want to make it sound like I was completely blind-sided by the whole dissability thing. The truth is I had been told by a Doctor many years ago that this was a realistic outcome for my situation. At the time, though I heard what she was saying, it was my intention to design my own outcome. And by experimenting with special diets and exercise programs I found a great deal of success that enabled me to continue living a relatively normal life.

Rheumetoid arthritis is a progressive disease. And after a couple of years the possitive effects of adopting a healthy lifestyle alone, began to wear off. It was time for me to take the next logical step......presciption medications. Now I am not about to bore you (or me) by detailing what is a very extensive list of meds that I have been on over the years. Let me try to sum this up by saying that you first take one thing that might bring some relief. Only to find that now your dealing with a whole, twisted little bag of side effects that came with it. Like weight gain, fatigue, skin irritations, dizziness, breathing difficulties and/or migraines, just to name a few. Ultimately you wind up on something to counter-act the side effects. All the while changing, increasing,and combining new drugs as what you start out taking eventually loses it's effectivness. Until one day you wake up to discover the mutiple things that you're swallowing, inhailing and injecting on a daily basis have become as incapacitating as the arthritis itself and you seem to have gotten nowhere.

The worst thing about all this, however, has nothing to do with phisical pain or irritating side effects at all. What I have found most difficult to deal with is my drastic loss of self esteem. It's like one day you feel as if you're doing something that matters, perhaps not on any grand scale but atleast in the lives of select individuals, and the next day suddenly your existence is totally meaningless. Now it's been made perfectly clear to me by my friends and family that this way of thinking is "rediculous". And logically I know they are right. But logic doesn't always figure into an equation where "feelings" are involved. And when a person who is used to working and earning every dime they've ever had, the idea of laying around and collecting checks from an agency, can make one "feel" really really low. This for me is unexceptable. My body may not want to function properly, but there is nothing wrong with my mind. I figured that there has got to be a way for me to gain back some self worth without having to rely on my physical body to do it.

I began a few months ago searching for a ligitamate way for me to earn a living and most importanly get off disability. Now I was not looking to "get rich quick" or even get rich for that matter. All I was hoping to achieve was an income that would allow me to support myself without having to rely on others. I never realized how tough this could be. I am not to proud to admit that I lost a good sum of money to some low-life scum (he knows who he is) that promised things that I was, at the time, desperate enough to believe. After that I experience I became far more guarded in my searching. I have to say that although I only fell for that once, the truth is, the internet has become infested with preditors who have no regard for anyone other than themselves. I am not saying that none of the opportunities I reaserched couldn't in fact earn a person decent money. On the contrary, most could. But in order to do so a person has to be willing to emerse themselves in a pool of dishonesty and in the cheating of others. My ultimately goal was to feel better about myself. Something these sites were in no way about to do. Eventually I became so discouraged that I gave up. Then, in a state of bordom while I was sufing around one day, I ran across an online retail opportunity that I just knew in my gut was something that was both legitamate and honest.I spent several days researching this particular business (my enthusiasm growing all the while) before I decided to go for it.

After being unemployed for nearly a year (not to mention being somewhat recless with my money) my savings account was in pretty sad shape. Investing in another opportunity was litterally make or break for me. I know that if this investment fails I stand to lose far more than mere self worth. This is such a risk that other than one of my sisters I have not told a soul about this. I have decided particularly not to tell my parents as my mom will only worry (like mothers are programed to do), while my father is sure to offer sound financial advise guaranteed to be harsh and critical. And yet, despite the possibility of a negative outcome, I am determined to forge ahead.

The only thing that is holding me back from making a successful go at this, is establishing a customer base. My store, which I named Savanah Sweet, has been online now for over a two weeks, and aside from my loving sister and I, I have had exactly ONE visitor. The truth is after paying for the occupational licensing, ficticious name registration, business tax and ofcourse the business itself, I don't have the finances to properly set up an advertising campiagn. I spend hours each day doing all I can from placing ads in all the free classifieds (of which there must be millions) to starting my own blog. So far nothing has worked. I have what I believe is a really nice site. The products I carry are of good quality and the pricing is very reasonable. The content ranges from decorative items to bath and spa and even holiday decorations. Litterally there are thousands of useful and beautiful things that most people would enjoy.

The bottom line here is that I need You as a potential customer to simply brouse around at what I have to offer. If in fact you find something for yourself or perhaps someone on your holiday shopping list, then I will give you a free gift card worth $10.00 to use toward your puchase (no matter what the cost). I will even cover the cost of shipping on any purchase of $50.00 or more (through the month of Nov.). In this way we can both be a part of something that is mutually beneficial.

With the above having been said, I want to thank everyone who took the time to read this. I will leave you now with a link to www.SavanahSweet.com and well wishes despite your decision.

Sincerely, Jimmie Hynes