Change of Direction

Well, after about 5 minutes of careful thought, and a heavy measure of impulsivity, I've decided to change the direction of this blog. I'm going to keep the look and feel and just move it on over to a different focus.

Previously, I limited my writing to those times when I thought I had something funny, outrageous, obnoxious or otherwise sensational to say. I've found those times to be limited, in large part by my mood. It's difficult to write anything funny when you feel homicidal.

Some of the reason I feel homicidal is because our family finances have been very undisciplined. Neither Tina nor myself grew up with any concept of how to manage money, and though we've stumbled on the "how to do it" of personal finance management for years, we've never put any of it into practice for any length of time.

Now we are back at it, and it has not been easy. We are starting with a budget, a list of goals (short term, medium term, long term) and a list of comittments. We try to have weekly meetings where we go over the spending and make adjustments to our plans.

Thus far, the going has been tough. Lot's of fighting and heavy duty emotion. It's not easy to change the habits of a lifetime. In anycase, nobody is dead yet and so we continue.

I will be changing the focus of this blog to document our efforts to get our finances under control. One of my less desireable character traits is my lack of 'sticktoitedness'. I hope updating this blog with details of the endeavors will keep me interested long enough to instill the changes we make as habits.

Stand by for more. In my next post, I hope to give a snapshot of the current picture and to provide some information regarding our next steps...