We decided today that we’re going to Las Vegas in November. Anyone care to offer suggestions for hotels\/flights\/sightseeing? I definitely want to visit Hoover Dam and the wax museum, but I don’t know what else is cool. We’ll probably be there for four days, from Saturday through Wednesday.<\/p>\n
I can’t wait to hear what Joe’s mom thinks about this recent development. When she found out we were going to Missouri she commented that she thought we were saving money for a house. And we are. However, from what I’ve been reading, we already have enough for a down payment, although that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to continue to save. I like the security I feel having a nice chunk of change in the bank. <\/p>\n
This is my theory on saving money – you can’t just save and save and save and never spend. You have to enjoy your money too. Life is short, and I’m certainly not going to wait until I’m retired to travel and have a good time. I want to do it now while I’m young and able to get around without difficulty. That’s not to say we’re spending money like water. I consider us very fortunate that even with Joe’s child support payments that we are able to spend rather freely and still save money monthly. I think we’ve both earned it, though. We work hard, and we’re frugal when it comes to stuff like groceries and whatnot so that we can splurge on entertainment. I’ve never been in this position before so I’m enjoying it. It always felt like I was living check to check and I hate that. <\/p>\n
On a totally (but happy) unrelated note, I’ve lost four pounds since I started my new fitness\/healthy eating life change. I weighed myself twice in the last two days to confirm and it’s been the same. Yay! I only have 36 lbs. to go. Haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We decided today that we’re going to Las Vegas in November. Anyone care to offer suggestions for hotels\/flights\/sightseeing? I definitely want to visit Hoover Dam and the wax museum, but I don’t know what else is cool. We’ll probably be there for four days, from Saturday through Wednesday. I can’t wait to hear what Joe’s mom thinks about this recent development. When she found out we were going to Missouri she commented that she thought we were saving money for a house. And we are. However, from what I’ve been reading, we already have enough for a down payment, although that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to continue to save. I like the security I feel having a nice chunk of change in the bank. This is my theory on saving money – you can’t just save and save and save and never spend. You have to enjoy your money Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}