Tomily Plans for the next year!!

Well i already mentioned that

the school thing was a buuussstttt.

We were hoping that Tom would be able

to enroll at our local college here in town and

just take a few classes that he was interested in.

Tom already has a degree from his University in Liverpool

so we thought it would be easy to get him accepted

into a non university for a few fun classes.

We were wanting to get him over in Texas

for about a year on a Student Visa.

But we found out that if you get a student visa you have to follow

a degree plan and that wasn't what we wanted.

This school doesn't do Masters programs either.

And we're not really looking at getting a Masters degree

because it would just cost too much.

We didn't want Tom to follow a degree plan either

because instead of taking the classes he'd want to take

he'd be stuck in English and Math and Science classes

just like a first year student.

So anyways...that's not happening

We got pretty pumped about the school thing.

We started thinking about all of the fun stuff we could

do in the USofA for the next year.

But then it crashed and burned soooo we had to move on.

While we were in the car driving to Houston

last weekend we brainstormed ideas the whole way.

We discussed the option of going to

Australia or New Zealand next year.

We punched some numbers...

and realized that we'd be spending more than saving

if we were to move across the world to either place.

Both AUS and NZ have the working holiday programs

so we would be able to work while over there which is good

but the money we made would have to go to rent and food

and anything else we'd want to do and I just don't

see us saving up as much as we'd want to save.

Plus on top of that we'd both need to have

about $7,000 by the end of this year.

I have like....$50 in my bank account ;)

So that doesn't look like it's going to happen right now.

We came to the conclusion that this next 

year needs to be about saving money.

Tom has a good job in Liverpool and we

want him to keep that job for as long as possible.

So after we decided that moving across the world

was just not going to happen we transitioned

over to talking about going back to England.

We were pretty happy by the time we got
to Houston because we now had a plan.

So here's the plan...the early version as I'm 

sure it will expand and change in the coming months.

I'll go back over to England in January or early February

for a few [5or6] months...

Then I'll come home at the end of that

and get a job and work for the rest of the year

and save up my paychecks along with Tom's paychecks

that he's been saving and will continue to save.

Tom may or may not come back

over to Texas next year.

Just depends on work and money.

We're hoping to have quite a bit saved up

by the end of next year so that we can

do more in the following year.

Maybe even permanent things.

We've heard Just get married already and well yea I'd love that

and so would he, but we want to be financially ready

to do that because we have more to plan and pay for than just

a wedding and a honeymoon.

We've got to pay for a marriage visa and a flight

and a small wedding and a fantastic honeymoon

and an apartment and we have to decide who's moving where

or are we both moving???????

If we move to England then Tom has

to be making a specific amount of money or have

enough saved up to support me.

The same goes for moving over here

except over here my parents can sponsor us

If I don't make enough money to support us yet

which makes it much easier on us.

The costs and questions just add up real fast

and we just want to be responsible and prepared

for when the time comes. :)

We're so responsible, I sometimes wish we weren't

but I know it will only benefit us in the long run.

:) 

Hope you're all having a good start to your week!!