I love the weekend. A weekend is like an oasis in the desert we call our daily grind, and I look forward to it every week (as do most). But this weekend is going to be even better as we have some great things planned. First of all, my parents are coming into town to visit and I’m very excited about that. I haven’t seen them since last November and now that I’m older, I’m wishing that we lived closer. We plan to have a big barbecue and invite a bunch of friends over as well so it should be a really great time. Not only that, but we plan to go to Six Flags with the family and have some good clean (if not expensive) fun. Rarely do I actually have fun plans on the weekend nowadays, so I’m really excited about this one. I’m sure I’ll be exhausted by Monday, but it’ll all be worth it.
Money Under 30 hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance this week, and our article about keeping a lean checking account was included. Over at Can I Get Rich On A Salary, our 5 Ways To Beat The Budgeting Blues was included in this week’s Money Hacks Carnival. Thanks to both for hosting this week and doing a great job.
I haven’t had a lot of time this week to read other sites, and so I don’t have any great links to share with you this time. However, I did want to leave you with some of the things I’ve been thinking about in my life lately. Sometimes we are so caught up in our daily grind, frustrations, or stresses that we totally take for granted all the great things that we have in our lives. I do this all the time, as I’m constantly looking for ways to improve, projects to take on, and ways to make everything better. But in doing that sometimes I end up losing the really special things that I already have. Being that my parents are coming here this weekend and we have all these fun activities planned, it’s really reminded me what a bad job I do at “smelling the roses.” Hopefully most of you out there are much better at it than I am, but if you’re not make a conscience effort to stop the grind and appreciate what you have. It is usually the littlest things that give us the greatest joys and we constantly need reminders of that. Take this as one and go smell some roses this weekend.
See you all next week!
