Our lives aren’t all fun and silliness, is it? After my wife and I passed a full week away from reality on our vacation, it was time for the two of us to confront our real lives again. From high interest rates on our credit cards and our car loan to house projects left incomplete, we had our work cut out for us. And you know, I’m tenacious old dog, so I wasn’t quitting on my GPS project, either.

The first thing we did was tackle the credit cards. Gratefully, even in this time of difficult credit, credit card companies and auto loan bureaus seem eager to please individuals with good credit. My wife did a great job isolating the best deal on the best 0 percent balance transfer credit cards.

I’m grateful somebody in the household has some sure sense of our financial situation… and it sure as heck isn’t me. But the lower interest and lower monthly bills should really furnish us a little extra breathing room.

Then we had to handle a number of house improvements we had been planning for quite some time. Some might suppose we have no business investing in betterments at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to obstinately press onward.

My wife has been looking over the different available steam showers and we both agree on the bathroom lighting and bathroom sinks we want for our bathroom remodel, but after looking over some discount bedding tips, we’re no longer on the same page for the new bedding.

Gratefully, she’s being either encouraging or tolerant of my trivial gadget fixation. 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 dog gps unit for our dog’s safety.

I believe gps tech has evolved enough and grown inexpensive enough that we need to incorporate it into our life.

I’m only relieved my wife and I are on the same page for most of this material. People’s lives can be so much more challenging when the souls around them use your problems as launching points for their pride instead of opportunities to unify and mature.