Silly Arguments

Have you ever gotten into a silly argument that you never really cared all that much about but once you got started, you just didn't want to back down out of principle? It seems really silly to fight about the thing in question, however you don't want to "lose". My wife and I had one of these silly tiffs recently about Pens. Yes pens, we both wanted the same pen for yahtzee and like any good husband I eventually gave in, but it was just silly in the first place. Why do we care so much about being right, or "winning" an argument no matter how silly? It seems like we could do a lot better to just let things go sometimes. Pick your battles so to speak. Easier said than done, I know...

Beware: Work Ahead

It will be nice once we get moved. Assuming that we find the perfect balance between usefulness and frugalness. I just hope that I can find a way to be happy in both areas but I doubt that that will be the case. The down side is that we will get to do House Painting again. The most dreaded task of any new home owner. The wall must always be repainted because once you are moved in, it becomes extremely hard to justify moving everything around to get it done. I think I hate doing it so much just because it's such an arduous task and there is very little of it that sparks my interest. At least we don't have to do it that often, and I guess the joy of being moved and having that behind us will make it a little easier to deal with so I won't complain that much. Ok so I probably will...

No Vacation For Me

Unfortunately, but smartly, we have decided to forgo a vacation this year. We are taking our trip to Nashville for me to run the half marathon but we hopefully won't have to spend much to do that and it will only be for a weekend. The big discussion is were to go next. A friend of mine goes to the Outer Banks a lot. No idea if they use Outer Banks Rentals or not, but he really does like it. We both would love to go out west although my wife is very interested in a beach vacation as we haven't done one in a while. I'm ok with that as long as there are some golf courses nearby. I'm not a big beach guy but it is her turn. At least we have plenty of time to decide and plan what we are going to do.

We Will ShamROCK You!

We went to Old Navy yesterday to try and find the girls' Easter dresses. Unfortunately they only had summer clothes in stock which of course makes perfect sense for mid February... But they did have plenty of irish gifts and clothing out on display. One of the things they had was a shirt that had "I [shamrock leaf] you", like "I [HEART] You" might look. I couldn't determine what this should mean exactly. "I shamrock You", or just "I 'rock you". I have no idea. I guess any shirt that confuses those around you is cool and interesting these days. At least it wasn't a spade symbol..

Good People

I was really proud of our church in the last week or two. We had a family whose house burned to the ground in a fire. Fortunately, they weren't home and they got there in time to get their dogs out so there was no loss of life, but there was a total loss of all things material. Our church took up an offering for them to help until their insurance money kicked in and we raised sympathy gifts of over $3000 in the first week. I was pretty proud that our church was able to respond in that way and it made me glad to be part of a church family that will help to hold each other up in that way. When my wife was on bed rest a couple of years ago and couldn't work, we received similar gifts that helped us greatly and taught us to be better givers to those around us. We aren't perfect but we definitely try to show compassion a lot more these days. The trend has been set so hopefully we can keep it going.

House Time Again Soon

Well we'll be trying our hand at selling our house again come April 1st. We'd really like to get moved into town so that we are closer to everything. And we need a bigger house as we would like to have a third child in the future. I've seen some cool places to check the listings, like Cary NC Real Estate that could help us find the right place. I'm just torn between saving money with a lower house payment and getting something that will fulfill most of our needs but not saving that much money. I guess it will all depend on what is available once our house sells, assuming it does. That is the main hurdle to jump before anything else matters so hopefully the market will change for the better soon.

Half Way, almost

Yesterday I ran 6 miles for my half marathon training. Talk about a Metabolism Booster, I've been eating like a horse this week with all the miles I've put in. It took a lot out of me to run that far. I was good and ready for bed last night at 9pm. Unfortunately we couldn't get our youngest daughter to stay in bed until 10 so I didn't quite get to bed as early as I had hoped. Then she got up twice during the night. She is still fighting off a cold so I guess that is to be expected. She has never quite been as good a sleeper as our oldest is.

I have to say that only being halfway home on my mileage is bittersweet. Good because I've made it this far, and bad that it was that hard. I think I was just overtired from my running earlier in the week and the fact that I missed a long run due to illness.

Anyway, only about 10 weeks till raceday so I still have a lot of work to do.