After reading Carrie's blog, I breathed a sigh of relief. You see, I had been spending more money than usual (groceries), and was sure that Carrie was at home, cooking rice and veggies, being such a good cheap woman. Not so.
It is funny to me how we (or maybe just me) assume that I am the only one who spends money badly. Everyone else has it all together, but I am the monetarily inept one. Yesterday at work I heard a girl say "Tips were good this week, so I can make some bad decisions". I wanted to hug her! Part of this is me (I always assume that everyone else is better at everything than I am), part of it is...well, I guess it is all me. Being hyper aware of how I am spending my money is good, and at first it was fun and novel. Now it is boring and a little infuriating. Who wants to look at their bad habit every single day? I want to spend with abandon, stopping only for the occasional guilt induced stomach-ache. I am sick of contemplating every apple or pack of gum I buy.
The cheap women honeymoon is over folks. Now we have to learn to live with each other when what I really want to do is say "Leave me alone!!".
Welcome to paradise.