2007

Buying a house may seem like buying a house to anyone the outside, but it really symbolizes freedom and growing up in a lot of ways. Up until now Krissy and I have lived over someone else’s roof, and now we are venturing out into the world and getting a place of our own, far away from any parental influences, which is going to be nice.

This isn’t just a change of address after all, it is a having a car in my own name with my insurance, paying bills on time each month, paying back a loan responsibly. What we are going into is uncharted territories. I mean anything we do now could possibly affect us years down the road, which is why I am hoping to make some good investments along the way. I guess that is why I have been thinking about having life insurance.

Anything could happen, and if that did could Krissy take care of herself? I mean I am sure she could, but I would like to make sure she is covered for a little while with Life Settlements. Life Settlements ensure that she would recieve 25K-500K if I die. I mean I am not planning on dying anytime soon, but if I did die, at least she would be covered.

Work seems to be picking up, which is good, but I have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me so I need to get everything done and put off what can be put off (hopefully not much to nothing at all) so that I can pack up move and then work in the new place. Yesterday I was working with my normal job doing Flash and some redesigns and a client came along that I was doing JavaScript code for. It is nice to have the money, but it just seems like this all came at a very weird time, any other time I’d be more than willing to do it all, but now I need to get everything together and move while working. Oh well, I hope this flow of work continues when I am in Ohio.

I want a chair in the new place that is just going to be mine, someplace that I can go play some video games, whether it be the Wii, 360, DS, it doesn’t matter, just a nice place just for me. I have been thinking about home theater seating. It is comfortable, the one I would get reclines and it is leather. I would sink right into it. Plus it would be very nice to get away from the computer in a comfortable place. I have always loved Home theater furniture, eventually I would want a whole big theater room, with seating for twenty surround sound and a huge television. Afterall isn’t that the American dream.

It is looking like next week that we will be going to Ohio. I am planning on packing up the car with some of the essentials before we leave, like my tool box, and maybe some boxes of little things that will fit in the car. I mean of course we don’t know if we will find a place, but more likely than not we will find a place next weekend, possibly even the place we’ve been thinking about, so taking some stuff isn’t so far fetched.

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I have started going through some stuff getting rid of it, because after this weekend, we will probably be very busy going to Ohio and packing. I am trying to get rid of the stuff that tends to accumulate over the years that I have forgotten about, and thought I would need at some point, but never have. It is a grueling process, but it needs to be done. We will probably have a box truck, so space won’t be a problem on the truck, but in the new place, it would be nice to have a clutter free environment. Plus with loading and unloading, the less stuff is better.

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So we are going to New York this weekend to get the loan money. It is Krissy’s birthday, so she is going to be spending it with her father, and I will have my laptop with me so I can work and update. I just need to install Dreamweaver and Flash on my laptop so I can work this weekend.

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I got my car back today. It was a lot cheaper than I was quoted, I got a quote of $991, but the exact cost was $845. It isn’t a bad price considering that they need to take out the engine to put it in, so I am happy. My car sounds a lot better, so I should be able to go to New York whenever the paperwork comes, which will hopefully be soon, because Krissy and I are getting very impatient with this.

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I added some new characters that were in the third movie to the Spiderman Characters section. I am hoping to have the synopsis of the third movie up and running after the DVD comes out, this way I can watch it and take screenshots and whatnot. For those of you who dont know the DVD comes out on October 30th.