This is the life

Today, for the first time in nine days, I woke up without coughing, sniffles, soar throat, headache, etc…

Overnight the new antibiotics the doc gave me have done what the other antibiotic (Cipro) haven’t in a full week. I still have a little bit of a cough after being awake for a few hours but I’m sure that has a lot to do with the expectorant he has me taking.

I also got a chance to watch ‘Into The Wild’ over the weekend. It is my new favorite movie. I don’t know about Alaska but I think I’d really enjoy living like this guy did even if its just for a short amount of time. It was a hilarious contrast to another movie I saw this weekend, Wanted. Wanted is a great example of 100% American Hollywood. They try to get the audience of people who have boring jobs (99.9%?) and make them feel like they could be a world class assassin and be around hot women and fast cars and blah blah blah. I enjoyed it for what it was but the whole time I’m thinking, I’d rather not have to deal with riding the top of a train, getting shot at, being beat down repeatedly, getting stabbed and cut repeatedly, and just get away from that whole mess and live a normal life. The movie ends with the line “What the @#$% have you done lately?” … How um, cheesy? For starters I overpaid for movie tickets to a movie theater that has sub-par seating and projectors.

On another front, myself and the wife have been debating on moving to only owning one car. It would probably save $700+/month and I think that would be great. Logistically I’m not sure how this will work out but I think the $7400 a year saved would be nice. It is either that or pick up a cheap beater (thinking of a Honda EJ1 at the moment) and just use it for work. I still dream of getting to where we have no car payments. I know its probably two years away but that would be amazing.

This weekend we will be on a bit of a road trip so I hope to have some good pictures soon!