Much needed update!

Yes we realize Thanksgiving will be here in no time, but we have pictures of Halloween! Finally they are making there way onto the blog. Ben had to shave his perfect beard for his impersonation of Dwight but as you can see from the pic it was worth it. My Angela wig was a little over the top but all I could find so we made do. Plus it officially confirmed my suspicions that blonde is not my best color.

We didn't want to leave you without the hilarious image of Ben with biker chops either, so be sure to check out those glorious pics.

I am also attaching a video of our apartment for the family members. So don't feel obligated to watch it if you don't care :)

Cured...

Well probably not but this article has got me thinking about leaving behind some of my perfectionist tendencies. Actually it will probably will give me new anxieties about being perfectly imperfect. :)
http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/PVN/being-imperfect-could-save-your-life

So, here is the thing about student loan debt.

Have you ever had the feeling that someone is following you: that there is some creepy person watching your every move? Well I have, and it is really starting to get weird. This guy will not leave me alone. He is everywhere I turn. He sends me hate mail and vicious email: he is a total cyber-bully! He is holding my free-wheeling lifestyle ransom for 700 dollars a month (with interest!)

Mr. Debt Bummer makes me walk-on egg shells; afraid to buy a cookie at the Kwik Shop.

I guess I got myself in this mess, insisting that I have a good education, that would get me my dream job, and help me pay for the life I want to lead (in all reality there is NO WAY my dream job would be able to pay for half the things I want to do, but I still want to complain) but I guess that was too demanding on my part.

So forgive me Mr. Bummer, for having too high expectations for the reality that is post-grad. That reality is: none of my student financial “advisors” told me…maybe you should work for a year out of high school, save-up and then go to school because believe me there is NO guarantee that you will even get a job and be able to pay back those loans. Oh and you know what, they don’t charge you for your degree based on the estimated four year income for the degree path you choose, so have fun paying 2 times what your skill is actually valued at in the real world. (Believe me I realize that there a lot of other variables that factor into this education and debt equation but I choose not to take those into account for the sake of venting.)

So now we are budget fiends counting every penny and hoping to save up enough to put our children through college someday. But calculations show that we need to be putting a lot more away than we possibly can right now. So sorry future children if we can’t pay for your college mommy and daddy didn’t realize that the financial decisions they made when they were 18 would impact your college experience.



Wish we had known that.

Meet the Family!

So we figured for our first official post we would do a little introduction. We are the proud parents of a cat named Mackie and a dog named MacGyver. They are quite the pair and somehow I feel like we have toddlers running around (and right now our bank account thinks we do).

MacGyver has recently recovered from terrible allergies but not without being doped up on Benadryl and having to sport the super stylish Cone.


Here is a cute (and kind of sad) video of his first time wearing the cone. Sidenote: you get a quick glimpse of our pied-a-terre (sounds better than the upper level of the duplex that we now live in). 


                                         Sorry it is so short. More to come on the Kansas life, shortly.