Our lives aren’t all fun in the sun, is it? After my wife and I spent a good week away from reality on our vacation, it was time for the two of us to confront our real lives again. From high interest on our credit cards and our car loan to home projects left pending, we had our work lined up for us. And you know, I’m tenacious old dog, so I wasn’t quitting on my gps plan, 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 people with good credit. My wife did a great job isolating the optimum deal on the best zero percent balance transfer credit cards.

I’m thankful someone in the house has some sure sense of our financial situation… and it sure as heck isn’t me. But the lower interest rate and smaller monthly bills should really provide us a little extra breathing room.

Next we had to address a number of home betterments we had been designing for quite some time. Some may say we have no business investing in improvements at this time, but what can I say? We prefer to stubbornly push onward.

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 encouraging or patient of my small 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 bluetooth GPS receivers.

I believe GPS tech has evolved enough and grown cheap enough that we need to integrate it into our life.

I’m only relieved my wife and I are on the same page for a majority of this stuff. People’s lives can be so much more problematic when the people around them use your problems as launching places for their pride rather than chances to unify and grow.