Thinking Out Loud

My uncle celebrated his 50th birthday last week. Everyone had a blast at the party my aunt and my cousins threw for him. At the end of the party, my uncle opened gifts and his smile was getting wider and wider as he opened one gift after another. He got a fishing rod, a humidor, a couple of shirts, a golf club, and a vacation for two for him and my aunt from their kids! He was so happy with his loot that he kept on telling everyone about it, again and again even if everyone already heard of it. Hahaha!

He’s always been easy to please. But I think more than the gifts he got, it’s the presence of everyone he loves that really made him happier than he can ever be.

Aunt Hilda still have five more weeks to prepare for her annual Halloween party. She throws the best spooky party year after year and people, both family and friends, really anticipate getting their Halloween invitations. It’s a well coveted invite and one where guests also prepare their best spooky costume to use.

I am not much into partying but when I know there’s so much fun to be had, like Aunt Hilda’s Halloween party, I go out of my way to attend it. Anyway, it happens once a year and both young, old and the young at heart, love it!

Holly is stuck at home. He broke her ankle and the doctor told her to stay put and not use her left leg too much or the bones won’t set. With nothing to do, she asked her parents for a tv set of her own and some rca video cables so she can do dvd marathons and even some tv shows that she had no time to watch before.

It would have been a nightmare for Holly to be inside the house 24/7. But now that she has some things to do, she is fine cooped up inside her bedroom. Anyway, her friends would come over after work and on weekends aside from the couch potato state she is happy to be in.

If there is one thing that I want to take care of by next year, it is the state of the family’s finances. I am saving up. We are all saving up. We want to invest on real estate properties as well as some investment schemes that we are very much interested in due to positive feedback from family friends but we are only a bit familiar with.

I think I will talk to the Missoula, MT wealth management group about these plans that me and my family have in mind. We want to make sure that our finances are properly in place.

Brian is training for his new job. He will be assigned to handle the machine for SMT Stencils. It is a new process for the new products the company will offer to the public and Brian is actually excited to be the first person to be handling the machine.

Brian is a banker but he shifted to another industry. He’s always more comfortable doing jobs using his hands and creativity. This is a good first job for him. He is thinking of using this as a stepping stone to a much better job as an artist in the future. And that will be five years from now.