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Friday, August 27, 2004


Well, this is my last weekend with a life. Monday the one year marathon of full-time work and full-time school will start. I'm both excited and scared at the same time. Being out of school for five years will make the transition back into student a little bit harder but I think I'll manage. I guess the one thing that makes be nervous is that you have to maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA or you are dismissed. I easily accomplished that in college, but I also didn't HAVE to get that either. There wasn't the pressure. I guess the one thing that makes me feel a bit better is that, and this is bad to admit, I didn't really apply myself all that much in college and I still graduated with a 3.4 GPA. The hardest classes, the ones I knew I had to buckle down for, I got A's. The rest, I kind of cruised a bit. I'm super motivated though to get out of here and get started in something I want to do, so I think that alone will make me strive harder. My goal is 4.0. Realistic? Maybe not...but that's what I'm shooting for!

I just read my wife's blog and I think I'll comment on something. Money. I guess we are a bit frugal. But I see it as a good thing. The comfort of knowing that we are able to save money is more important to me than going into debt buying things we want know. I watched my mom spend, spend, and spend until my dad cut up her credit cards and my parents credit suffered for awhile. I made a deal with myself that I was never going to be like that. I'm proud to say we have next to nothing in credit card debt. With the average family in the US having $12,000 in credit card debt, that makes me feel really good about how we are dealing with our money. We aren't poor, we just choose to think about things before we buy them, and more often than not, pay for them up front. I feel like ever since we bought our house, we have cut our eating out down next to nothing. We have a budget and so far we have stuck to it pretty well. As far as furnishing our house with hand-me-downs.....well the stuff is still nice, it's just not new. We will have new stuff soon, but one things for sure, I don't want to be house poor. People who are house poor have no financial flexiblity for other things. Sorry for the rant!



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