Our lives aren’t all fun in the sun, is it? After my girl and I passed a good week away from the real world on our vacation, it was time for the two of us to confront our real lives again. From exorbitant interest rates on our credit cards and our car loan to household projects left pending, we had our work lined up for us. And you know, I’m stubborn old dog, so I wasn’t giving up on my gps project, either.

The first thing we did was tackle the credit cards. Thankfully, even in this time of difficult credit, credit card companies and auto loan bureaus seem eager to please people with good credit. My wife did a great job isolating the best deal on the best zero percent balance transfer credit cards.

I’m grateful somebody in the household has some responsible sense of our finances… and it sure as heck is not me. But the lower interest and lower monthly bills ought to really supply us some breathing room.

Next we had to discuss a number of home improvements we had been designing for quite some time. Some may say we have no business investing in betterments at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to pig-headedly 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 bedsheets, we’re no longer on the same page for the new bedding.

Gratefully, she’s being either supportive or tolerant of my trivial 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 receiver.

I believe GPS tech has refined enough and become inexpensive enough that we need to integrate it into our life.

I am only assuaged my girl and I are on the same page for a majority of this material. Life can be so much more difficult when the individuals around them use your troubles as launching places for their pride rather than opportunities to unify and mature.