A Blog About My Life’s Lessons

We just completed our first family road trip to visit my little sister and nephew.  The primary purpose for the road trip was my nephew’s 5th birthday party as well as to see my sister’s new house. Plus, I want to continue to build on our relationship and the only real way to do that in one-one face time.   
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Last night, my wife and I celebrated our 4th anniversary with a night out on the town.  Without going into too many details, it was awesome!  You can learn more about the details from my last blog entry. I plan to blog my review about Ester’s Follies at a later time (in short it was incredible).  Today, I […]

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I’m happy to say that as of about 2pm today, my wife and I have been married for 4 yrs.  Man does time fly.  The romantic guy that I am, I’ve planned and exciting night for us tomorrow to celebrate this anniversary. First off, we are going to be baby free :-).  We have a babysitter coming […]

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The hot topic these days is the tax rebates from the US government.  From what I can tell, it is officially going to happen (pending signatures early next week).  While I was doing my research to figure out how much I was going to get, I came across this article on cnn.com.  This article answered […]

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Budgeting is a hot topic for me right now, and nothing makes budgeting harder than non-fixed costs (utilities, gas, food, etc…).  Its always a pain in December when my Gas bill spikes 2 or 3 times its normal rate.  I recently discovered  a way to make my utilities become fixed cost (both Gas and Electric) through a levelized program […]

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By no means am I a political activist nor do I plan on blogging each and every day about political issues.  However, I’ve become more interested as I’ve gotten older (not to say that I’m old).  I hope to learn a lot more about the potential candidates during the next few months. My biggest struggle […]

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I’m very excited to announce that my wife and I have actually booked our first vacation is 3 years :-).  This vacation is the result of a few circumstances:

We actually budgeted the vacation as part of our first annual budget (only took 4 yrs) back in November
Our Daughter is old enough now that we feel comfortable leaving her for […]

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