Back in the 21st century!

Got Internet hooked up today! Nice! Did it all by myself as the hubb's is gone to meetings again! Wireless throughout our house pretty impressed with myself. (Those that know me well know that I'm not the most tech savvy) I say I know just enough to get into trouble! So I will try to get on more and ramble about whatever goes through my mind.... I can only promise that if you are sleepy this may help you sleep! :)

I am still on track with my goal two whole weeks can you believe it? only 23 1/2 more months to go! I have found that air drying my clothes instead of using the dryer for everything should save me about $30 a month on my electricity bill, I am testing this theory.  Greg was able to get us new phones and lower our phone bill so that is a good thing, I am surviving not having an IPhone. I am getting used to my palm pre plus. Greg seems to really like his android, though he feels like a complete traitor ( we are a house of Mac) I think that the Apple corp has enough of our money that we are still in the cult! (we have recently added an apple TV to our arsenal.) thanks to the in-laws!

Have a good one!

miss my phone :(

So My Iphone finally took a dump makes me sad! And in my new quest I just can't find it in myself to fork over the several hundred dollars to buy new ones! So we settled I got a palm pre and Greg got a droid of some sort. (they were the free ones) I just only started using my palm last night and while I do miss my Iphone and if I could afford it I would have one in an instant, I think this will work, it isn't as "user" friendly, but I like things simply laid out for me. I do enjoy the multi tasking, and that the message updates are placed on the bottom of the screen and not the middle. As I am sure you can imagine Greg is having a hard time with this, he is an apple purist, and has been forever. It is nice to have a smart phone again I have been using my old Nokia flip phone for the last week YIKES!! how did we live when our phones were only...well...phones, yuck.

Tonight I will attend my first PTA meeting, I resisted as long as I could, (I'm not a "join the club" type of person) but I think that the more involved I am in Erik's school the better it will be for him, knowing that mom is around and he can't get away with much may make him work harder. (not that he is having any problems) I still can't believe my little baby boy is now just another kid on the playground. We had to get him a new winter coat and socks this week and jeans are just around the corner. I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BIG HIS FEET ARE!!! I can put his socks on my feet! crazy! I think he is going to be a tall one!

Well, I think that is all I have for now!

Resolved.

So the new year rings in had a fantastic holiday season with the family! Missed everyone I couldn't see. But had a lot of fun in Washington with the in laws! Ate to much, drank too much, and loved every minute of it! So we are pretty much all settled into our new home now and loving it! Still need some stuff to fill it up yet, but it will all come with time! So I have decided that I want to be debt free in 24 months! I have worked out a budget to allow that and I am prepared to make the sacrifices that need to be made to make it happen! ( I just have to make sure our car lender won't stick us with a huge penalty for prepayment) I don't think it is going to be easy at all, in fact I hope I can stick to it! But the carrot at the end is being debt free by 32 not a lot of people can say that! I think that will give us much more freedom than we have now. I have been reading a book called "The tightwad gazette" it is a cool book about different ways to save money and teaches you how to do those things. The lady that writes it is very easy to follow. So I am trying to be cheap basically, we will see how it works I can do anything for a couple weeks, it is the follow thru that I'm not so good at! We shall see what sticks and what doesn't. I will keep you posted!!