Life isn’t all fun and silliness, is it? After my girl and I passed a full week away from the real world on our vacation, it was time for the two of us to confront our real lives again. From exorbitant interest on our credit cards and our car loan to house projects left unfinished, she and I had our work lined up for us. And you know, I’m tenacious old dog, so I wasn’t 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 eager to please individuals with good credit. My wife did a good job isolating the best deal on zero percent credit cards.

I’m thankful someone in the house has some sure sense of our financial situation… and it sure as heck isn’t me. But the lower interest and smaller monthly bills ought to really provide us some breathing room.

Next we had to discuss a number of house betterments we had been designing for quite some time. Some may say we have no business investing in improvements at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to stubbornly push forward.

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 supportive or tolerant of my little gadget fixation. I’m not too bad about it, but I have my weakness. Presently I have narrowed it down to a portable tv, DVD projector or a Garmin Golflogix GPS. Speaking of GPS, we both agree it is time to invest in a bluetooth GPS receiver.

I think gps tech has evolved enough and become cheap enough that we need to integrate it into our life.

I am only assuaged my wife and I are on the same page for most of this material. Life can be so much more difficult when the people around you use our troubles as launching places for their pride rather than opportunities to unite and mature.