1/1/16 2015 Was A Good Year?

    It is the first day of the new year, but let's look back at the previous year for a second.  I want to stand up and give it a nice round of applause.  I thought 2015 was a good year, for our family at least.  I mean Wife with her Master's Degree, eight years of experience at ACC, and eight years of being part of the administration group in Bastrop was promoted to bus driver by her new supervisor, I am sure it is part of a long term goal which will land Wife in charge of Logistics or something we don't even understand yet.

    Boy continued his work at Texas State, moving out of our house and into an apartment in San Marcos, at least during the week.  His job is still at Alamo Drafthouse, so he has a great reason to come home every weekend.  Chubs got to finish his final year at his elementary school, which was touch and go during the summer of where we would be living.  

    Speaking of houses, we went through a lot of energy expended to decide whether to sell our current house and move back to our first house or vice versa.  In the end, my ego could not live in the first house, we sold it, paid a bunch of credit debt, bought a new F-250 truck, and ended the year refinancing our newer home after a couple of attempts.

    So for now, we are staying where we are, 2016 will hopefully be more of the same.  It is hard to even contemplate moving as we have looked around and noticed that even houses half our size are approaching $250,000-$300,000.  The next step for us will be a new SUV for Wife, but she wants to see our credit debt down to zero before we get more into debt.  But if there is a way, I would love to see a new SUV for my partner in crime.  

    Other than that, we have our timeshare for the spring, our trip to Florida with my folks in the summer, whether we take our RV to the coast this summer or keep using hotels.  We just got new tickets to SeaWorld, and our friends who had moved out of state are back, so we will probably also be looking at doing some rough camping, in a tent.  I would like to get my boat running again, and this might be the year for that.  So much to do, the year is already feeling packed with fun.  Woo-hoo!!