Just cause

I just sorta felt like blogging this morning.

I would imagine that most people view bankruptcy and losing their house as low point - ground zero; but for me this couldn't be farther from the truth. Not only does it lift a laundry list of burdens off my mind (what projects will Jys force unto me this summer? How do I ever go back to school with this house payment and no internet? This house has some serious issues that I am ill prepared to fix!), but it seems like everything is going better since we started down this path.

I'm getting along smashingly with Jyesika for the most part, everyone grumbles at each other now and then; but it seeeeeems like we are doing good. I've found a new hobby I enjoy and I've been keeping expenses for it relatively low. I continue to make slow and plodding advancement towards Der and I's project. I hope to begin the 'writing' phase of it inside two weeks. Hell I even had my arm examined to find out it is probably just a strained rotator cuff (which I still need to setup PT for).

But best of all is having real hope. I misplaced my ticket when the Obama Hope express drove by, but I've managed to come across my own several months later. I now am filled with all of these plans that honestly don't feel far fetched to me. Having internet. Creating crappy videos with a kick ass dude. Going back to school. Jyesika going back to school. Hell I'm even hopeful that the Australia dream can come true in 3ish years. For the first time since getting married the immediate seems full of possibilities instead of the never ending road of scraping by and spinning our wheels.

On top of all of this we have begun to budget our money and Jyesika has become a Dave Ramsey acolyte. Maybe I am giving myself too much credit, but I don't really think I need to learn to curb my spending as I'm already a ridiculously frugal cat. But it has helped me to think about a lot of other issues with how I handle money, and I think it's done wonders for Jyesika as far as how she views spending. I'm really against the stupid 'cash for everything' that he advocates as I HATE carrying around cash and actually find that I spend cash more freely then credit. And I don't really spend either of these things 'freely' at all. I want to get a big white board to setup in our house somewhere to keep track of monthly spending and all of our various savings plans (cars, vacations, toys, Emergency fund, etc). Hopefully we stay the course and find ourselves in a much happier place financially 2 years from now (I think that is how long it will take us to become debt free with 6months savings).

As I haven't blogged on this since the before time I really doubt a single other human being will end up reading this, but I had some time to kill and just sort of felt like doing it. Plus I plan to pick it back up in the internet wonderland that is still hopefully in my future. I like facebook, but I'm not really a fan of the stupid status update addiction that is 'sweeping the nation'. I don't understand how you can really tell any sort of tale in that space; but to each their own.

As for my immediate future I am looking forward to Spring Time, Interfuse and the new Blood Angels release.