It’s no secret that I want to go back to school. I’ve often asked myself why I am not in school currently, I mean I work for myself and I could maintain fulltime status with school and do work on my off time, plus getting a degree and taking classes in business and marketing would help me with what I do now, so why not right? My best answer for the question is money. I was $5500 in debt not too long ago. That’s just with credit cards and my credit is really bad because I’ve had them for so long and have missed a few payments. I figure once I lower the balance on the cards, along with the monthly payments then I should be able to take out a student loan and any other loan I would need to go back to school.

Right now I am down to under $5000 in debt, but it will be back to being a little over $5000 with the interest payment this month. I know it isn’t a big difference, but $500 is a huge dent for me, considering some of these cards I have had since I was 18 years old. I am hoping to be down to $4500 by the end of this year, in fact if I can keep up working with the pace I am, not only will I be able to pay back an extra $500 to these cards, but possibly be more than half paying off the bed and getting Kristen’s cards paid off. The more that we can pay off together the more money we can have in the long run for vacations, and other fun things.

I am hoping though that come January Kristen will have her own car, mine will be in good enough shape for me to go back to school, and the bills minimum payments will be a lot lower than they are right now. Hopefully it all works out the way I want it to.

I’ve been getting a lot done lately, just today I managed to start and complete the new jokes section and I am working on a few other things at the moment. I’ve even been better managing my time with work so I can work on more personal projects. I think in the long run things are going to be better as far as time management goes.

Last weekend we did a lot of car switching just to be able to get a minivan to pick up a new gazebo. Tonight we started putting it together and it’s a lot bigger than anyone remembers it being in the store. I will hopefully have pictures once it’s put together, but we didn’t factor in we’re going to need a pretty big tool to get it complete, a ladder. Even though it says it’s only 8 feet tall, with the double roof that’s on there it’s easily 12-14 feet and a folding chair just isn’t going to cut it when it comes to getting up there.

Kris is going to be gone for a few days, she’s staying at her aunt’s so I am planning on using that time to play the Halo: Reach beta and catch up on some movies. The first movie I will be watching tomorrow is Avatar. Also tomorrow I plan on returning all comments from the last few entries and finding some more blogs to comment on.