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It’s like a wonderful dream come true…
I’m finally going to initiate a spending cap [not that I’ve been spending my money willy nilly]. I’m giving myself a strict $100 allowance a month. Yup, that’s a paltry $50 per pay period but since I’m living at home, my usual expenses tend to be on the low side. Granted, this does nothing for the sad state that my closet is currently in, but first things first. I need to create a nice buffer, especially with Christmas coming up. Shouldn’t be too hard, I hope. I just need to keep a sharp eye on how much I spend and count every penny. Should be easy since my debit card rounds up to the nearest dollar and deposits the extra into my savings account so I’ll be going from that total when adding things up.
It’ll be interesting how that works this month, especially when I have a few birthdays I need to contend with, along with my other daily necessities that I do need to shop for. I’ll have to do some clever negotiating and creative math.
I’m just excited because in 3 months I’ll be back in my darling’s arms. Yay! I just booked my ticket last night, thankfully before prices went insane…they already are on the high side of what I usually pay, thanks to the Christmas holiday. I swear, you have to book a year in advance in order to get a good deal…or get lucky booking super late, which we did not have the luck last Christmas. We also outlined our visits for the next year too, which is nice. I can’t believe we’ll be celebrating our 3rd year together in March! When he said it, I had to stop and think for a moment because it honestly didn’t feel like it has been 3 years but sure enough, it has been. Or will be. See, it’s these types of sentences that I was having trouble with on the GMAT prep.
Anyhow, so we’ll be seeing quite a bit of each other. We’ve averaged about 2-3 trips a year? More or less…more on the less side to be honest. It’s just been hard coordinating the time and, most importantly, getting the cash to pay for said trips. But they’ve all be very enjoyable when they have happened. It’ll just be nice when we won’t have to get on a plane to see each other. I consider this an investment. All these trips are just helping us to remain connected to one another and that’ll be important when we take the next steps of living together and getting married.
It’s still kind of surreal that we’ve been together so long. Especially since this has been my first and only long-term relationship. I figure it’s a good thing that it hasn’t felt like we’ve been together for forever…things are still fresh. It just feels so nice to be able to relax and not worry.
Today’s a pretty dull day. All the heads of the office are out, along with a lot of other people so it’s really quiet. And the phones have barely rung too. Not that I’m complaining. Gives me time to work on a few side projects, like revising my scholarship essay and writing down my shopping list. And figuring out how much money I’ll have left after I pay my bills this month. And how to revamp my fudge recipe. I already made one subtle change a while back that added to the flavor but I’m looking at tweaking at least one more thing. I won’t say what yet but I hope it’s as awesome as it sounds in my head. I’ll find out next weekend when I may be trying it out to bring to Jacki’s housewarming…if it turns out well.
I’ve been wanting to try a few new recipes I’ve come across, one’s for pumpkin bars, another for a ginger roll with lemon curd…I wonder if I’d be able to do a vanilla one instead. Hmm, I’ll have to find a recipe for a vanilla like curd. Anywho, and I want to try my hand at making risotto. That’s quickly become one of my favorite foods. I want to do that with like a grilled chicken? I actually have little clue as to what I’m actually doing in the kitchen but I certainly like to experiment.
Speaking of the kitchen, someone brought chocolates to the office yesterday from Woodhouse Chocolates and OH.MY.GOODNESS they are so good and smooth and utterly decadent. It was a mix of white, dark and milk chocolates all in these cool little shapes and what turned out to be just one white chocolate nugget of deliciousness turned into five nuggets of deliciousness. Well, four and one disgusting one. I had what turned out to be a Thai Ginger chocolate [I checked the site after I took the first bite] and the ganache was “infused with lemongrass and coconut covering a piece of crystallized ginger” which equals equals a whole lot of SO COMPLETELY NOT RIGHT. The ginger was the first thing I tasted but ugh, I did eat the whole thing, thinking maybe it’ll taste better with the chocolate [see, I was giving it a second try] but nope, I did not enjoy it at all. Even the water I drunk couldn’t get rid of the taste. So back I went for the white chocolates. I almost grabbed 3 more on my way out of the office but at the last minute convinced myself I didn’t need 3 so just took 1. That’s a little thing we like to call moderation, folks.
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