Fresh start

I used to blog on xanga but I haven't been doing very well keeping up with blogs and such there & I decided I wanted a fresh start so I decided to try blogspot. :)

My husband is a full time college student and is in the Naval Reserves. He was Active Duty Navy for 9 years as Enlisted and plans to go back Active Duty as an Officer after graduating college. I work full time at a hospital in Radiology. I do xrays and CT scans and work the evening shift. As I'm sure you can guess, my husband and I do not get a lot of time together. I do work 10 hour shifts though so I have an extra day with him that I wouldn't have if I worked 8 hour days. I like my job but it is stressful. I would much rather be on days and I haven't given up hope that I will one day get there! :)

I have a little sister that lives in the same town as me and is going to graduate school for Accounting. My dad lives about two hours away in the same town as my in-laws (my husband and I met in high school). My mom passed away from metastatic breast cancer on January 16, 2007. It was horrible and sad but we knew she was dying before she passed. The doctors had told her she was terminal so we did get to take TONS of pictures and make as many memories as possible with her before she left us for heaven. My sister and I pray a decade of the Rosary for her (yes, we're Catholic) every month on the 16th to remember her and also on special days like her birthday & Mother's Day, etc.

My husband and I have been married a little over four years and we are thinking about starting a family soon. :) We are trying to get out of debt and not use credit cards anymore also. We have paid off one card and one HUGE car loan (my husband's that he took on before we got married) and starting budgeting consistently with You Need A Budget, aka YNAB. However, we are thinking of taking on another HUGE debt and that would be a HOUSE. :) We are going to look at a house this Sunday that we found online to see if we like it as much as we think we do. If so then we will have to talk to our landlord about getting out of our lease and pursuing that. If the landlord says no then we are stuck until July of next year. We would really like to get in on the tax credit this year though! We would be able to pay off one credit card and have two months living expenses saved up with the $8,000 tax credit. That would just leave us with my Jeep loan and another credit card that has 4.99% interest for the life of the balance. :)

That's a little about me in a short post, now it's off to bed. I'm hoping to keep at this blogging thing on here, it's been very therapeutic for me in the past. :)