May 28, 2009
Testing 1, 2, 3
Just testing the two different ways I think I've added my blog to facebook to see which one I like better. This is my last blog thing for tonight. Promise!
Buying a House
Nate and I have been talking about what the next steps in our life are going to be. I'll admit that I figured they'd be engagement, marriage, house, and kids. Well, in the last few weeks Nate has been thinking of looking into buying a house before we get married. The $8,000 tax credit plays a big part in this. He looks at this tax credit as an opportunity of money to lose (i.e., if we don't buy a house we're losing out on $8,000 of free money). I look at this as more of an emotional decision in that I always figured we'd get married then as a married couple look for a house.
I'll admit that it's weird sometimes doing married couple things without being engaged. For instance, tonight we went to a First Time Home Buyers seminar at GESA Credit Union. It was apparent that Nate and I were together and so I felt weird being at a home buying seminar without a ring on my finger. As if people were looking at us and thinking "not married, shouldn't get a house". I think we've basically narrowed down our options to two choices. A) We wait to buy a house until after we're married, and B) Nate buys a house with his own money (my input on the house is to buy is as if we were married) and then I move into the house after marriage. There are pros and cons to each option, and depending on who you ask, one makes more sense than the other. I suppose if you look at the options from a purely financial standpoint instead of an emotional one, one option does make more sense. I'm just not ready to take that leap yet. Still thinking things through.
So that's what our main discussion for tonight was. Although, using my awesome girl powers I did sneak in a few wedding/marriage discussions! :-)
I'll admit that it's weird sometimes doing married couple things without being engaged. For instance, tonight we went to a First Time Home Buyers seminar at GESA Credit Union. It was apparent that Nate and I were together and so I felt weird being at a home buying seminar without a ring on my finger. As if people were looking at us and thinking "not married, shouldn't get a house". I think we've basically narrowed down our options to two choices. A) We wait to buy a house until after we're married, and B) Nate buys a house with his own money (my input on the house is to buy is as if we were married) and then I move into the house after marriage. There are pros and cons to each option, and depending on who you ask, one makes more sense than the other. I suppose if you look at the options from a purely financial standpoint instead of an emotional one, one option does make more sense. I'm just not ready to take that leap yet. Still thinking things through.
So that's what our main discussion for tonight was. Although, using my awesome girl powers I did sneak in a few wedding/marriage discussions! :-)
May 27, 2009
Technologically Late
I always seem to be the last one of my friends who signs up for the latest technological fad. It took me months to get on MySpace, I bought an iPod years after they came out, and Facebook just recently became something I became interested in. So here's my attempt at signing up for the latest fad just after it lost its coolness.
I've been wanting to have a blog for a while now, but just never seemed to put forth the time to set one up. So I finally decided that it didn't need to be perfect from the get-go and that I'd get a basic blog setup and then play with it until I liked what I had. Fair warning that this may change a million times in the next few days. But at least I'm here and willing to talk about my life. (Not on the level of Jon & Kate Plus 8 because that's some craziness right now, but enough so you get to know the ins and outs of the days of 'me'.)
I've been wanting to have a blog for a while now, but just never seemed to put forth the time to set one up. So I finally decided that it didn't need to be perfect from the get-go and that I'd get a basic blog setup and then play with it until I liked what I had. Fair warning that this may change a million times in the next few days. But at least I'm here and willing to talk about my life. (Not on the level of Jon & Kate Plus 8 because that's some craziness right now, but enough so you get to know the ins and outs of the days of 'me'.)
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