I just spent my tax rebate on the JCrew sale. I hope they approve it soon.

Payday. And no rent due. Can every first of the month be like this? I feel like taking every dollar I have out of the bank and rolling around in it. Lalalalala!

*Remind me of this feeling in two weeks when I'm writing a check to a moving company that is sure to break at least one piece of my grownup furniture.

A few weeks ago my friend Andy (one-half of peanutgallery12) dropped his business card in some fishbowl and was the lucky draw in a free meal for him and 10 friends at Bertucci's, if we all agreed to listen to a financial planner's spiel about, erm, financial planning ( Read more... )

So in the past month, the boy and I have accrued three parking tickets (him $45, me $35) during various lunches and nights spent at my apartment, and tonight we lost the key to my garage, which has to be replaced by my jerky management company. So that's $80 in parking tickets and whatever it costs to replace the opener. Good God. Is this a symptom ( Read more... )

Money is flowing out of my bank account lately at an alarming rate, as if somehow my shopping instinct is unable to comprehend that I receive very little money at my current job - and that probably won't change anytime soon.

And I am about to purchase this lovely yet expensive TV stand. (Oh, excuse me. "Media suite.") My first Pottery Barn ( Read more... )

I really detest cheapness in all facets of life, but most of all when it occurs when settling the bill after a group meal at a restaurant.

I went to lunch at a spot near my office--one of my favorites--with some coworkers and junkmale, who decided to do a disappearing act when we got to the restaurant. And then there were four, including a woman from my ( Read more... )

I think the fact of the matter is that I just adore spending money. Observe:

I just ordered my Internet, phone and cable TV service for my new apartment. I'm literally giddy because it comes out to $89/month for all that (INCLUDING privacy protection for the phone [Damn you, telemarketers! Damn you!] and HBO/Showtime). Now, if I thought buying ( Read more... )

So on the advice of others, I purchased a wrist splint on the way home from work today. And now I feel like the biggest freaking dork of all time. (At least I found one in natural fabric, as opposed to black.) The pain was getting worse today, so I put it on as soon as I got out of the store. (Nerd.) And when I was grilling chicken tonight, I had ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon's thunderstorm (and the temporary--but very real--threat that lightning was going to come through the electric cables, find my office and shock my typing fingers) did not deter a friend and I from following through on our plan to make his very first major league baseball game a Nationals-Mets faceoff. After all, the seats my ( Read more... )