Beginning Of A Short Week

Well, June has come and gone.

Yesterday, was Canada Day.  Totally forgot to post that here....so Happy Canada Day! :)
I also had to work yesterday.  It Was Crazy.  We had a large storm come through on Friday night which took out power all over VA, MD and DC including our house.
Half of the town was dark and the other half was not.
We got power back at about 7:00am Saturday morning, but Comcast went out and we had no cable or internet all day Saturday and half of Sunday.  I will definitely be asking for a credit for that day. Apparently Comcast didn't go out until AFTER the power had been restored. 

The queues at work were well over 100 ppl waiting for a representative in my department for pretty much the entire day.  It sucked. 

I made a $475 payment to the MBNA Mastercard, which will bring the balance below $2000.  It feels good considering that card started at over $20,000 just last year around this time!

I also made another principal payment of $50 to the mortgage, and we are 1 month ahead on the mortgage with our next payment not due until September 1.

Our vacation up to the cottage in Muskoka has also been sent to my dad's bank account so they can write the check for the rental.  I'm really looking forward to going back again this year.  This will be J's first time up there, and I hope he enjoys it as much as I have all my life.
I think the first time he casts his fishing rod in the lake all will be good :)

Jand I have still not filed the taxes.  I have done it over and over and over in TurboTax and the numbers always stay the same.  We are going to just file through it, since we can get audit protection through TurboTax.  It's the only 'unusual' thing we have in the filing, so we will go ahead with it.

Hope you all have a good start to the week!  I have tomorrow and July 4 off.  Looking very much forward to it :)

Car Shopping.... *sigh*

I guess I've put it off long enough.
Back in May, J had an accident and our second vehicle, the Ford Ranger (which was awesome!) was declared totaled. Thankfully, Geico paid off what was still owed and we no longer had another car payment. Yay! But now we are down to one vehicle. Boo!

We've been surviving pretty good so far, although there have been some frustrating moments. Back in July I started an earlier shift, 7-4 which was ok. J hated getting up early, but at least he wasn't getting to work at noon when I worked mid-shift. I on the other hand, would have to wait until 5 or 6pm until J would pick me up. Not good.

Now, since I started my new position, I'm back to a mid shift, and I'm being dropped off at work at 9:30am when my shift starts at 11:30am.
Again, not good.

So, we bit the bullet and applied for another auto loan. So we'll be out shopping today to find another vehicle. We definitely want 4x4, and I'm a little partial to Ford, so we're looking for an Used Explorer. I've found a couple, so we'll check them out.

I guess the only good thing about this year, is that it will all be paid off by the end of the year with J's deployment :) Again...yay and boo lol