Life isn’t all fun in the sun, is it? After my girl and I passed a full week away from the real world on vacation, it was time for the two of us to confront our real lives again. From high interest rates on our credit cards and our auto loan to household projects left unfinished, she and I had our work cut out for us. And I’m tenacious old dog, so I wasn’t quitting on my gps project, either.

First we tackled the credit cards. Thankfully, even in this time of difficult credit, credit card companies and auto loan agencies seem anxious to please individuals with good credit. My wife did a great job isolating the optimum deal on refinancing our auto loan. This should compensate for my blunders with penny stock trading.

I’m grateful someone in the household has some responsible sense of our financial situation… and it sure as heck isn’t me. But the lower interest rate and smaller monthly bills ought to genuinely provide us a little extra breathing room.

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

My wife has been looking over the different available steam showers and we both agree on the bathroom lights and bathroom sinks 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.

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

I believe GPS technology has evolved enough and become cheap enough that we need to incorporate it into our life.

I’m 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 individuals around you use your troubles as launching places for their pride rather than chances to unify and grow.