About Me

Patrick

46 year old,single male in Ohio. I'm "the toyguy" because I work in the toy dept. of a large retail store.

2009 Goals:
- Pay myself back $344 for muffler repairs on my car from December of 08.
- Add $400 to my E-Fund
- Hold off as much as possible on my smaller "funds" and goals till first 2 goals are done.
X- Continue saving for a total of $4000 for 2009 IRA.
- Start saving for total of $3000 for 2010 IRA.
- Have my first ever yard sale when the weather starts getting nice this spring.
- Try to take a real vacation around July or August possibly to Costa Rica.
- Pay at least $100 extra per month to Mortgage principal. I plan to pay off my mortgage completely before the 20 year mark which is about 3 years from now.

2008 Goals:
- Continue using Quicken to keep my checking and other accounts in order.
- Save at least an additional $400 into my
E-Fund (DONE) which currently has $1,200 in it. My overall goal for E-Fund is $12,000.
- Slowly work on building up a car fund. (VERY SLOWLY)
- Save enough into Travel Fund to take a good vacation in October. (Saved enough money but cannot travel this year)
Save $4000 for 2009 IRA contribution.
- Continue my "Paper (clutter) Challenge"
- More to come as I think it over.

Vacation Pics number 3

June 6th, 2009 at 09:08 am

Hope I didn't bore anyone with the pictures. I took an aweful lot(Over 600). Just sharing some random ones that might be of interest to some of you.

Nothing new financially except going back to work today. Thats tough after over 2 weeks off.

Don't know what this bird was but I thought he was cute.

This is the National Theatre. Inside it has a beautiful italian design

This one gives you a general idea of inside the National Theatre.

One of the Canopy Zip Lines.

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4 Responses to “Vacation Pics number 3”

fruitbowlk Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 09:30 am

Thanks for sharing.
whitestripe Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 03:41 pm

not boring at all, i love the photos. thankyou for sharing them.
toyguy1963 Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 08:52 pm

Tanks fruitbowl and whitestripe. I'm going to post one more batch of pics tomorrow. I enjoy sharing them.
Broken Arrow Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 06:08 am

More great pics!

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Vacation Pics number 3

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