Really?? It's been 6 weeks???

Wow! I can't believe it has been six weeks since I posted.

So here is the funny and ironic thing. I had an Epiphany a couple of weeks ago. We have been in Financial Peace University classes at church. One of the talking points is paying yourself first. Now I have always heard that and have always known it in my head, but it finally occur ed to me that if you don't, SOMETHING always takes it's place. You think that with the leftovers you are going to add $$ to savings, pay off debt etc, but amazingly, there is never any leftovers. There is always some "emergency" or sudden expense. So that was kind of an "ah Ha" moment. I realized I have always felt like putting money into savings was kind of like playing. It is fun and you don't get to play until all the work(bills) are done. Thing is...like I said above, the bills NEVER seem to get done, and therefor the savings etc also never seem to get done.

Coupled with this Epiphany, was the realization that this mindset has stretched across many boundaries in my life. Namely, exercise and blogging. I LOVE to "exercise" with my wii fit (it is in quotes because, while I really do much much more than i would otherwise (hula hooping if no one is around;-) my favorites are yoga and the balance games.- Doesn't really seem like "Exercise" to me) and blog. Almost every day I think of something I would love to blog about. and yet, that mindset is, until all the "work" is done, no playing. Thing is, just like with money, the "work" never all gets done. I just have to start taking those few minutes for me or it is never going to happen.

Of course, you can see how well the epiphany worked, as it STILL took me a couple of weeks to get back to blogging;-). Oh well.. I am a work in progress! In so many ways;-)

So Hopefully I will improve my attendance here. It is my almost new years resolution. Let's see how it goes;-)