Despite having posts appearing throughout the last week, I was on vacation in Michigan (I’ll probably post some photos next week!). Now we’ve dropped by some friends’ house on the way home and I’m checking my e-mail/blog and watching the Olympics. This last week has taught me a great deal about the importance of vacation.
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Looking for an awesome, free film? During the writers’ strike downtime, Joss Whedon went outside the mainstream (since they were striking against the big studios, not everyone) and created a hilarious(?) musical film called Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillon (from Firefly & Buffy & apparently Desperate Housewives), and Felicia [...]

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Today is our first anniversary. It’s also 6 years and 2 days since we first started dating. I can’t say it’s been the easiest year, but no year is easy. I’m still glad a year later that we got married and I believe we’ve learned a lot in the whole process too. Being together for [...]

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Welcome to the Vampire Slaying edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! Today’s categories and comments draw inspiration from something I’ve been enjoying lately–the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. While it deals with monsters & evil, the series also covers everyday issues of life, death, work, and finance. It may not be fully realistic there either, but it provides food for thought—both in what it includes and in what it leaves out.

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Because of the seasonal nature of Micah’s work, we have to slow down our debt snowball in the summer. But that’s ok, because debt repayment doesn’t have to stress us out. We just have to stay motivated and stick with it as long as it’s one of our goals.

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