Our lives aren’t all fun and silliness, is it? After my wife and I passed a full week away from the real world on vacation, it was time for us to confront reality. From high interest on our credit cards and our auto loan to household projects left unfinished, she and I had our work lined up for us. And you know, I’m tenacious old dog, so I was not quitting on my gps project, either.

First we addressed the credit cards. Thankfully, even in this time of tough credit, credit card companies and auto loan bureaus seem anxious to please individuals with good credit. My wife did a good job isolating the best deal on a zero percent credit card.

I’m grateful someone in the house has some responsible sense of our finances… and it sure as heck isn’t me. But the lower interest rate and smaller monthly bills ought to really furnish us some breathing room.

Then we had to discuss a number of house betterments we had been designing for quite some time. Some might say we have no business investing in improvements at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to pig-headedly press onward.

My wife has been looking over the different available steam showers and we both agree on the bathroom lights and the bathroom sink we want for our bathroom remodel, but after looking over some discount bedding tips, we’re no longer on the same page for the new bedding.

Thankfully, she’s being either encouraging or tolerant of my small gadget fixation. I’m not too bad about it, but I have my weakness. Currently I have narrowed it down to a handheld tv, DVD projectors or a Garmin Golflogix GPS. Speaking of GPS, we both agree it is time to invest in a bluetooth GPS receiver.

I think GPS technology has evolved enough and grown cheap enough that we need to integrate it into our life.

I’m just relieved my girl and I are on the same page for most of this stuff. People’s lives can be so much more difficult when the people around you use your problems as launching places for their pride rather than opportunities to unite and grow.

Wine