And now for some temporal stuff...

Because my last two posts were so freaking HEAVY and my day to day life is actually quite light:

I have been trying so hard lately to be conservative with spending money.  I have some debt to pay off and I'm also trying to save up for a trip to Japan for next year.  So I had pretty much decided that I would not be doing any out of town theme park trips this summer.

But that started to get depressing.  And I realized, what is life if not for living?  I have a plan to pay off debt and what if it takes six months longer to do it?  If I should flee this body in the next year, would it be more important to me to have less debt or to have been to more parks and been on more coasters?  A-DUH.  Coasters.  Please.

So I got online and booked a three-day, two-night stay at Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH.  Some of you may remember my last attempt to go to this park and how it involved being evacuated from the hotel in the middle of the night, then waking up to find rain gushing from the sky in such a way as to insure I would not be getting on any coasters that day.  Well, I have finally summoned the courage to try again.  At the moment, the weather for those three days in Sandusky is sunny and in the high 70s.  Dreamy, right?

That trip is going to cost me about the same amount of money as that TV I bought and returned a couple of weeks ago, but that's another post.

There are a couple more fun things potentially coming down the pike, including a trip to DOLLYWOOD (and you know how I love Dollywood) as well as the possibility of a weekend in NYC, including Coney Island.  All while still managing to reduce debt and save up for Japan.

Hooray for learning to be balanced!