Katie and I are getting married next year.  This poses some interesting life  questions.  Mostly planning related.  To date my life has been lived by the seat of my pants, pay check to pay check.  And now I need to get away from that.  A daunting, terrible reality I have been struggling to realize for probably the last 3 years.  

The problem has always been that I haven’t had enough money to simultaneously pay my bills, buy groceries, and maintain my lifestyle.  Out of those three things my lifestyle is the easiest thing to change.  Things like not buying lunch at work, not buying the new sweet video game, not getting that iPhone game, not going to bars, generally decreasing my social activity. 

Man that sucks!  What about all the fun stuff?  Hard to say, but when you have your eyes on a house and a wedding, its easier and easier to give that stuff up.  I suppose that has always been the problem, no real clear goal. Now that I’ve made a real and life-long  commitment to Katie its easier to set those things as real deal serious goals.  To stop living paycheck to paycheck and really act like a grown up.

Shit maybe I’ll get an IRA while I’m at it.  Oh and my stuff is done compiling, guess I’ll get back to work.