Life has set backs, I haven’t updated our credit card situation since January 17, 06. At that time our total credit card debt was $3668.86. Today 3/10/06 we are at $2,902.00 - we’ve paid off $766.86 (after the set back of vacation expenses to go see my grandmother and a few other misc. medical set backs). I think we are still doing very well, we ( Read more... )

Today is the big day, I have a big smile on my face and I can’t wait to see the look on my grandparents face when I show up at their door tomorrow morning. They are going to be so surprised, I can’t believe I have kept it a secret…go me  My brother knows, and I just called him to confirm he hasn’t told anyone, he’s been a good little secret ( Read more... )

I will be flying out to Michigan on January 19th around 6:30pm. I am so excited not only to see my grandmother, and the rest of my family, but to be surprising them like this. No one on my side of the family knows, I take that back I had to tell my brother because he was not going to be in town. He cancelled his out of town trip, so now he will ( Read more... )

My grandmother had her 3rd chemo treatment monday, she seems to be doing pretty good. I was calling her daily, but now that it's getting close to me surprising her I can't call because I am going to ruin the surprise. So I am trying to call her a couple times a week, and making small talk so I don't spill the beans ( Read more... )

I forgot to do a credit card update with everything that was going on ( Read more... )

Good things to come in 2006. Our New Years Resolutions probably resemble others in many ways, but I think that we are actually going to commit to #1 ( Read more... )

Time for my monthly post on credit card debt. As of today our credit card balance is $5620.99. ($1,144.63 less than the last post - we put Andy’s bonus and almost a full paycheck toward our debt ( Read more... )

No Work No More - That came straight from Grace & Ron! But it's true for me until next Thursday, i'm out of here. Happy Vacation to me, Happy Vacation to Grace, and Happy Birthday to Grace!

I will update this every month on the 21st, but this month is going to be hectic because of vacation...

Credit card balance on 10/11/05....$6765.62 ($426.53 less than last update - paid off 1 credit card :) ). I am not updating this again until 11/21/05 - we are going on vacation this week and I hope to god it doesn't put us back on our plan!

I finally went into the boss’s office and asked for an increase in mileage reimbursement. At first he said “we pay $0.31 per mile, you probably get 20 miles per gallon” and he smiled. I said “yes it’s covering gas, but barely…and mileage reimbursement is for more than just gas, it’s maintanance for the extra miles”. He said he would consider it ( Read more... )