Life is Good and God is Awesome

So I was just sitting here at my apartment.

Thinking about 2007 and how awesome God is and what he has planned for me in 2008.

I just bought TaxCut and Microsoft Money (it was a deal where i got Money for free when i bought taxcut from Staples). I'm actually excited about both. Doing your taxes can actually be kinda fun, even when u have to pay them. I like entering all the info and going through my finances.

Money is cool though cuz it shows you different reports about how your spending your money, and if u keep on your current habits where you'll end up. It's awesome. It'll help me on my saving endevours. I'm really cutting the fat bigtime in the past month, mostly food expenses. I was WASTING way too much on food and dining out and starbucks and crap. it kind of makes me sick. this month im able to totally cut the crap and save a fairly large amount! YAY!

Little savings tidbit that I got from a really wise multi-millionaire
who i look up to greatly - Hans Johnson (check out his companys here - http://danijohnson.com and http://risetosuccess.com). You know how you say "I saved $10 on that pair of shoes" or you were buying groceries and everything was on sale... well you didnt actually save it... you ended up keeping it to spend in other places. So what you should do is, lets say you saved $30 off your groceries for the month... instead of keeping it in yuor checking to spend, put it in your savings account alongside the money you normally save (you save money right?) It's a cool little technique to really get more out of your money.

I just went shopping at the Safeway today - bought 2 lbs. of steak at $2.99/lb. and a pound of salmon as well. I also bought brocolli, potatoes, celery, almonds, and 3 dozen eggs... all that should last me quite a while. but if you think about it, it's really saving alot of money (and you get good food out of it too!) It's cool. cuz the Safeway club card tells you how much you saved by using your club card, so i went and put the money i "saved" into my savings account. :D