I heart productivity

Wow, I am feeling really on top of my game this week. I have been accomplishing so much! Hopefully it lasts! I have also been having some serious fun lately. Friday night Sarah and Shea came over and we had fun playing Dictionary with them. Sarah writes very good fake definitions! We totally relaxed this weekend and Monday night we went out for sushi with friends. Last night my friend Amy came over and after a few glasses of wine we went over to a local Italian dive to have a quiet dinner only to find that the place was rockin with someone's birthday party. We had a drink there and took in the scene and then went to a Thai dive for some yummy curry and Pad Thai. I realized that we have some great little restaurants in my area! DK, Gino's, Sawadee and Bakehouse. It's pretty cool to have so many great little places like that in the local area. That's not even counting all the great Mexican food restaurants we have around here. I love it. South Austin has got it going on!

In other news, we are working on a new budget for the household to strip everything down to the bare essentials and pay off all of our debt. Our goal is to find free entertainment and host potlucks and game nights and watch all movies on dvd through netflix until we are debt free. We have that quicken software on which you can download your stuff from the bank and categorize it and it is amazing to see how much money we blow on entertainment and dining and paying off old debt. We could be going on fabulous trips if we'd planned better! Man, debt is like the curse of our generation or something. My mom told me that when she and my dad were in their early twenties they couldn't even get a Texaco gas credit card - and they owned a Texaco gas station at the time. It was hard to get a credit card back then. With our generation, they were practically giving away credit cards. And, I have to say, James and I began adulthood with virtually no knowledge about money and budgeting so this is totally a new thing for me to learn. Hence our new goal. I'll keep you posted. I am totally excited to learn new stuff.

In work related stuff - I am working on finishing up the charm bracelet project and the marketing for it. I have written a press release but I am totally unsure about it. I plan to get a few friends to look at it and give me feedback. I want to get it out soon.

I learned a new word from the youth yesterday - it's "steez" which means style as in "he's got steez." I learned it from my kid.