money woes

i'm excited.
i'm leaving for a week long bike/camping trip around manitoulin island.
(so in case anyone actually reads this, i'll be on hiatus beginning july 1st)

so i'm excited about that and i'm ecstatic about moving into our new place.
3 of us.
at 30 yrs old (on avg.) we're going backwards in life.
forget the house in suburbia, the suv, the 1.5 kids and a dog.
we're jack, chrissy & janet. i think we may even have a mr & mrs roper.
now all we need is a larry.

all this excitement leads to being more broke than i've been in a while.
i mean, quitting a full time job to go back to university pretty much broke me, but this hurts.
but i don't feel nearly as stressed as i would have felt about it, say, 2 years ago.
it's bizarre but refreshing.
stress is the number one cause of CVD. and CVD (leading to heart attack/stroke) is the number one killer in north america, you know.
and i've honestly been trying to live a somewhat stress-free life in the last little while.
it came with the "big change".
don't get me wrong, school got a little stressful there, especially during exams.

but honestly, i have really been trying to mellow out in the last few years.
not let trivial things bother me. not let the things that aren't that important to my well being be a let-down.
and i think it's working.

Music to my ears: Adorable ~ Against Perfection
Food for thought: Strange Heaven by Lynn Coady