Thundersnow

I'm tired of this weather.

Twenty Years ago....

I got my first credit card during my first semester of college in 1989. John got his first card a year later. Both of us have had credit card debt ever since. I was introduced to Dave Ramsey in May 2007 by my friend Mindy and her husband Jeff. (Man, do I owe them dinner)

We started FPU the last week of May and have never looked back.

The most exciting thing is as of last week, we have NO credit card debt!!! It's all gone, gone, gone. We have no car payments and only owe on 2 things - my education and our house.

Two houses down, a family moved out a few weeks ago. This makes the 5th foreclosure on our street alone. Even with this economy, we are better now than we ever have been. I want to scream it from the rooftop, but it's cold out there. Sorry if others feel like I'm bragging, but we have worked our tails off to get to this point. We were used to buying what we wanted, whenever we wanted.

Now I look at my Citibank card that says member since '89 and have decided I don't want to be a member of that club anymore. I'm also spreading the excitement. Three of my staff are now on the Dave Ramsey plan. They've all borrowed my FPU and TMMO books. One is in FPU now. We will change the world, one family at a time. We don't need a bailout, we'll do it on our own thank you.

You've Been Mooned

I saw the 2Peas post that tonight's moon was going to be fabulous.

Here is my first moon photo. My editing software keeps locking up my computer, so this is SOOC following similar settings from the Moon Thread (ISO200 SS 1/640 F/5.6) Since I only have 2 lenses, I used my 75-300mm lens.

More Practice

I tried taking some pictures of the rest of the clan, but I've found I'm not very good at manual focus yet. So, these are straight auto focus. Obviously, more practice is in order.

Sam

Tater

Start..Ready, Set, Go

I started the 12 week photo course at 2Peas. I just took pictures using the Av mode on my camera and 3 different f/stops. It's a grey day outside and the sun was setting, so my tree pictures are not exciting at all. You have to start somewhere, so here I am.

Room for Another Hobby

John bought me a Canon Rebel XSI for Christmas, so now I've added another hobby. Now I have scrapping, cooking and photography. In addition, I'm trying to finish up a baby quilt before Alexis arrives.

Miles continue to fight his MRSI (like MRSA in humans). The vet thought he might take the stitches and drain out tomorrow. It's been a roller coaster and we didn't think he'd pull through. It's been emotionally draining, especially since we have lost 4 pets in the last 15 months - Buck was just last week.

I was in my office/scraproom talking to a friend when I saw the sunset below from my window. I raced outside to get a picture. I'm completely unfamiliar with my camera, so I just used the auto setting. I have printed out a lot of stuff and am going to spend 2009 learning as much as I can about photography and my camera.