halloween, often referred to as the celebration of the dead. wierd holiday and strangly similar to Dios De Los Muertos (forgive my terrible spanish, im white). this year, on All Hallow’s Eve, we get to set the clocks back an hour. everyone loves the fall back part but hates the spring forward part.

we met yesterday with Christine of Amex. we mostly discussed where crystal and i are in our lives. we talked (very little) about some rough numbers to give her an idea where we are. she seems like a very nice and knowledgable woman. she asked us to bring in some credit statements, 401k and student loan paperwork. she said its actually good to leave the student loans around, they’re good debt. you don’t HAVE to pay them off immediatly because they have such a low interest rate and the longer you’re paying them, typically 10 years, the more it can build credit. student loans rank up there with car and house payments. apparently everyone has them and they’re considered good. im just lookin forward to cleaning up all of our debt.

we went and looked at some apartments, hidden lake and estates at northwoods. i wasnt too impressed at the northwoods. the apartment they showed us needed some serious repairs. the hidden lake place is very nice, but fairly expensive (about as much as my rent at my current complex).

crystal saw eternal sunshine of the spotless mind yesterday and i dont think she was as impressed as i was. she seemed to have a hard time following it (as did i until it was 3/4 of the way over) so that’s usually a sign that she wont like it. oh well, what can you expect from a bush voter!

heh yeah that reminds me, i voted on friday. we went to whitmore elem. at 5pm but they were packed. so we went home to eat and went back at 7pm. it was even worse then. it took us an hour to get to sign in. once we signed in, it took only a few minutes to actually get to a booth. it was an electronic ballot, touchscreen monitor. i voted straight ticket LIB, and split the remaining votes between the REP and the DEM. since crystal (and her staunchly REP friend rebekah) both voted REP (shutter), i had to lean more towards DEM on the remaining votes, just to cancel theirs out.

im off to see the wizard.