The first seeds...

I hope to one day start my own freelance business. Really I'd be happy to just network with people, create business relationships of my own and get some freelance work of my own. Maybe some day I will get ambitious and coordinate others. I registered a domain and ordered some contact cards. I plan to use the site I set up as a combination of a professional site for my work and as a hobby site, maybe make some extra money doing portraits and other artsy things for commission. We will see, I've talked about it in the past.

Today was kind of long and boring. I've been working on the home budget and my work schedule for the coming fall. I will be able to register for classes next week. We'll see what I can get a week before the semester starts. I am looking for only 6 credits, at least one class online probably. Then my loans will go back into deferred status. I am saving up for the first payments, just in case. No more loans for school here though. I hope to dedicate my money from working to tuition, gas, and saving for a down payment on a house. Jorge mentions a house now and then, its obviously important to him and important to me as well. I want to have a home before we have children, which gives us a few years yet... I also hope we can pay it down for the most part and not have a large mortgage. Financial independence, that is what I want for my immediate family so that we can then help take care of those in our extended family who may need it.

Such are the dreams of many people... I think we have a good foundation to reach such goals. Here is to hope.