Friday Thoughts

It is friday and my head is full...full of randomness in my head that even prevented me from getting a good nights sleep last night, i could not sleep, not sure what the problem is but i better get some of this out.......

--I was thinking this morning while i was driving Iz to my mom's that when did she become a little girl!!! There she is in teh back seat happy as can be (i swear the child wakes up so freaking happy every day!) just chatting away with me. When did this happen??? where did my 15 word, wobbling toddler go??? I just really can't believe how fast my sweet baby girl has grown up!!!

--i have a older sister (step sister, half sister, what ever you want to call her) she is 10 years older than me and a "whoa is me" kind of mentality and a sense of entitlement that never ceases to amaze me. Needless to say we are not close even though she lives about an hour from me. This morning she call my office to talk to our dad(i work for my/our dad) she says "I have to talk to dad....." then proceeds to tell me her sob story about how her lease on her minivan is up and she can't believe she is looking at a $400 car payment and is going on and on.....are you serious! You are 42 years old, and you are calling your dad to see if he will help you with your freaking car payment!!! She is something else. Our family cruise in december will certainly be interesting, i wonder how many different things she is goign to try to milk my parents for (even though they have already paid for the freaking cruise!)

--i have been slacking again in the workout deparrtment...i am beginning to sound like broken record! I worked out for 30 min yesterday for the first time in about 2 weeks. I wonder what it is going to take for me to finally get myself back in check....urgh

--we met with our financial planner this week for our yearly review or whatever and man did i walk out of there with a headache....i know we are in a much better position financially that a large portion of the population but i sure did leave there feelign inadequate....holey crap college is expensive!! we started a 529 for izzy less than a year ago i think and have been putting almost nothing in it..$50 a month...which is better than nothing i guess but when our planner showed us the figure that with inflation it will cost about$200,000 for college i about fell out of my chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we put an extra $100 a month away starting today, it will still only cover 32% of her college...........YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are also going to do some expense exercise over the next couple weeks with him where we look at what we are spending now, assume we want to live about the same and they plug the info into some software and it tell yous what you need to save for retirement....i can only imagine how depressing that figure is going to be...........if only money grew on trees!

--i can't believe it is already 11:30 am and i have gotten almost nothing done and work, i just am too tired to focus on much of anything......i hope i can sleep tonight!

--tomorrow we get a free day/night since the in laws volunteer to watch izzy (i love unsolicited babysitting..nothing better) so we are meeting up wiht our two couples and going to watch the MSU/UofM game at a local bar. Should be fun despite the outcome of the game..nice to hang with friends and know we have the rest of day and following morning off :)

hope everyone has a good weekend. GO TIGERS i hope they can finally clinch the division this weekend....