Time for another giveaway

Since this is about the time everyone abandons their NYE resolutions, I thought I would give one lucky reader the chance to win a magazine subscription to Fitness Magazine.

I am a current subscriber and this magazine offers tons of advice.

The rules are the same as before: Leave me a comment and your name is entered once.

Become a follower or let me know that you are a follower and you get your name entered again.

Link this giveaway to your blog and you guessed it, I will enter your name again.

This giveaway will close on Thursday, February 18.

I will announce the winner on February 19.

Good Luck :)

The disappointment sets in

Yes, I am sad that my beloved Colts did not win the Super Bowl, but I am a forever fan. I still love them and will continue to root for them each and every season. You can't win them all can you? It was a good game and I may or may not have told L to start warming up the car when the interception took place. I was pissed, but today is a new day and I am over it. I did wake up at 3:00 with a massive headache, clearly I consumed too much wine. Ugh! So Congrats to all of you Saint's fans and a well deserved Super Bowl win. I hope for a rematch next year~!! Until then...

The Day Has Finally Come

It's the Super Bow Baby!! In t-minus one hour we will be loading up the car and making the one hour treck to our friends house to watch my beloved Colts whip some Saint's ass. Just to be sure we have all the bases covered:
1. bottle of wine...check
2. Peyton jersey...check
3. Colts hat...check
4. vegetable tray...check
5. camera...check
6. trash talking before, during, and after the game...check

It's time to bring home another Super Bowl ring boys.

LET'S GO COLTS!!!!!!!!!!

Conquering Our Fears

I am afraid of heights. I am talking racing heart, sweaty palms, upset stomach, you name it..I hate heights, I can't even be in the nose bleed section at games because it makes me sick. In an effort to conquer my fear I have done this:

And over the summer L took me up in one of these:                                 

We lived to tell about it :)

And I have a love for these:

This year I hope to do this:

So tell me how I could do all of these things, but just thinking about jumping in a pool with this, sends chills down my spine:

You see, I have always wanted to swim with the dolphins and I have a chance to in Puerto Vallarta, but I can't bring myself to hit the reserve button. I think I would get in the water and the dolphin would touch me and I would be all set. I don't like the ocean, I don't snorkel, I don't scuba dive (tried it and a huge turtle ended it for me) and I don't like salt water. If God wanted me to mingle with all things fish related, I would be a fish, he made me a human and I firmly believe my happy ass belongs on land. Sure, I like to sit on the beach and watch others risk their lives with such things as sharks and eels, but me...hellz no!

On the other hand I know I would be sad if I passed up this experience. I still have some time to ponder my decision. Has anyone swam with dolphins and lived to tell about it?

Thankful Thursday

Thank you all for your comments yesterday. I loved reading how everyone else handled the transition. Just to clarify, L and I are not fighting over money, this just so happens to be something I was curious about. In all honesty, I don't feel I should have to post a disclaimer on my blog nor should I have to justify why I write what I write. If you don't like what you are reading, leave, visit another blog and question them on their choices. The way L and I handle our finances is a personal decision and not something that is any of your business. I actually find it to be rather rude that you would question what we do with our money. I didn't realize you were a financial advisor. If you think this comment is directed at you, it is.

Just a lil' something I had to get off my chest...now moving along.

Today I am thankful for:

1. A healthy Pug. We have struggled with his diabetes for so long and I am so happy that it has been two whole months without a seizure.

2. Some clear direction. I have been at a crossroads with my Grad School program and I think I finally have been given the proper guidance and direction I need. Praise God.

3. L, for keeping me sane. This week has been crazy. I have been stressed out and last night he came home and gave me a huge hug and asked what he could do to relieve some of the stress. Just what I needed.

4. Feb. 4- Today is the final payment due date for the cruise (wedding). I am thankful that I don't have to deal with our travel agent and his 101 emails every.single.day.

5. My job. Although at times I want to scream from the mountain tops, I am thankful to have a job.

6. The wedding to-do list dwindling down.

7. Our dvr. I have class on Tuesday evenings and I missed Lost, but the thankfully I can watch it on our dvr.

8. Larry, for coming over yesterday and moving the treadmill. I was in panic mode that I would not be able to have my hot date with Jillian, but you came and saved the day.

9. The blog world, you guys seriously rock.

10. Beth for lending me Dear John. I started reading it last night and I can't wait to read more tonight.

11. Spinning. Tonight's class is with my favorite instructor. She rocks my socks!!

I hope you all have a fabulous Thursday.

Wedding Wednesday: Finance Addition

I have had a lot of people ask me over the past several days whether or not L and I will be joining our finances once we are married and the answer is No. I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but it honestly works for us. We both grew up in homes where our parents had seperate finances so we don't really know the difference. I never want to be that couple that argues about money nor would I ever want to ask my husband if I can buy this or that. We have our allotted amount we each pay towards the bills every month and what we choose to do with the rest of our money is up to us. Thankfully we are both savers, but we also like to do our fair share of shopping. We do split vacations, home improvements, furbabies meds and vet bills, home owners insurance, property taxes, etc. 50/50. We both work very hard for our money and I would never want L to tell me I can't buy a pair of shoes or vice versa. I could see how this would turn into WWIII in our house. I do realize things may change when we have children, but for now we will be keeping everything as it has been for the past 7 years. As the old saying goes, "If it is not broke, why fix it"? How did you handle your finances once you were married?

I am onto your tricks

L and I switched banks a few months back to a large commerical bank and it has been a nightmare. We have always belonged to a Credit Union, but our CU was in L's hometown and that is an hour away from where we currently live. This didn't pose too many problems because any time we needed to conduct a transaction we went into one of the many service centers. I miss my CU, dearly! Our new bank sucks. First, I made a deposit in the drive thru and the transaction posted to my account, I was able to view it online and then BAM, it was gone. I called the bank and they had no record of the deposit. Are you kidding me? I remained calm and rationale and quickly explained that if they didn't find the deposit in 2.2 seconds I would be on my way up there to speak face to face with the manager. I was told they would need to call me back. That didn't fly with me, I remained on hold while they searched their records. How hard could it be to look through their transactions between 3:15 and 3:30 at this specific branch? Finally, they were able to locate the deposit and I was told the deposit would be made within the next business day. Um, no it will be deposited right this second, you clearly see that I made the deposit yesterday and it was your mistake. Then, I was never given any deposit slips to conduct business through the drive thru, this didn't seem too strange to me because our beloved CU never made us fill any of this stuff out. We simply handed them our DL and account card and told them what we wanted, it really was simple. I had gone to the drivethru a few times at the new bank and I handled every transaction the same way, I dropped in my DL and Debit Card (they require two pieces of ID) and told them what I wanted, except there was this one day I was told they wouldn't process my request unless I filled out the form. Yeah, alright. I never had to do this before, but whatev. Then on Sunday I was checking my bank account and I noticed my savings account was off by $2.00. I cliked on the account and saw it was a service fee for a non-atm transaction. I have never used the atm to withdraw any money out of my savings account. I called the bank and she indicated that I must have used my atm card. I explained that I have never used my atm to withdraw any money out of my savings account and if this is the case where is the withdraw? She reversed the charges, but it makes you think, how often they get away with this. We are currently looking for a new CU, I am so over the commerical bank.