Video Fun

Check out the video that RJ & I made with my co-worker Jeff.  Jeff & I work for Suddath Relocation, and we entered this in a company-wide contest.  The goal was to promote our moving services.  We won first prize!!!!  Enjoy :)

Take a Load Off Danny

Thou Shalt Not Covet

I don't consider myself to be a very materialistic person.  I never have had a desire to drive a fancy car or own a closet full of Coach purses.  But lately, I'm having some trouble with coveting.  For about a year now, RJ & I have been focused on bearing down on our debt, and we've made tremendous progress.  Even during our engagement, while we had all kinds of wedding expenses coming in, we were consistently paying off debt too.  Paying off debt is rewarding and motivating, but it's also a huge challenge!  We have had to deny ourselves many things that we see our friends and co-workers enjoying.  Examples include frequent eating out, new vehicles, cute clothes.  (Cute clothes applies to me, mostly.)

Anyway, I'm getting tired of denying ourselves these things.  I’m feeling like I want to be selfish.  I want to go on a shopping spree and buy tons of clothes!  I want to eat out every day for a month!  I want to go to Austin with RJ for the weekend and stay in a hotel and do whatever we want!  But most of all, I really want a new mattress.  Is that too much to ask?  Our mattress is old (I got it used three years ago), and it caves in the middle.  So we both find ourselves rolling toward the middle of the bed.  And it’s affecting my sleep.  I wake up in the middle of the night uncomfortable, and sometimes my back and neck muscles ache mildly throughout the day.   I know it is bad for a person to have a bad mattress, so I don’t feel like I’m being overly demanding here, but mattresses do cost money.  And we can’t afford it right now.  *Sigh.*  Oh well.  I will do my best to obey the Bible and not covet for now.  But man, when that day comes when we decide we can afford a new mattress…I am going to be sleeping with a BIG SMILE on my face.