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So... it's no secret I'm extremely bad with money. It's actually a really good thing that I know this, since I've had enough trouble keeping up with the one credit card with the $500 limit on it that I've had since college. I cringe to think what I would have been or would be like with an Amex card or something.

Most of my downfall is food. I love to eat out, and I tend to forget or not be bothered with packing my lunch. This doesn't even count the cherry cokes and coffees I've been known to drink, though I'm making some effort towards once again kicking the coffee habit and toying with the idea of weaning myself off soda as well. I always feel bad at the end of the week frittering money on eats, because while I like good food, really at the end of a meal you don't have much to show for your monies. :P So I'm trying to shift my spending to bigger, better, more permanent things.

Most immediate of course is the wedding and the three loans I'm working through, which are all school related. Argh. Hopefully the wedding will be resolved soon. The loans... well, thanks to the auspices of Madame Sundart, those are getting managed.

There's other stuff too, creative stuff. Belly dance starts up again at the end of the month. I'm going to need a cubic fuckload of legos if I want to make the "leap from dreams to reality" with my victorian model. Like, upper 3 figures worth of legos. I'm also toying with the idea of starting music lessons again in the spring, either violin or piano (I miss them, and know I'm never going to pick them up again consistently unless I HAVE to), or Something Completely Different and going for voice. There's a music school in Amherst over by the Studio, which is what put the idea into my head. And I really do want my very own hi res digital camera. I miss taking pictures.

And then there was the fact that three days ago on a total whim I was checking how much flights were from JFK to St. Petersburg were. I still find it amusing and somewhat appalling that I grew up in an international environment and at one time had competent command of both French and Russian (I could still probably hold an intelligible conversation in French, but the Russian is sailing out of the window except in the rare case of total inebriation) but yet I've never managed to get out of the eastern US except for one trip to Austin when I was like 6 that I totally don't remember. But I totally want to visit places - Europe, Japan, Egypt maybe - fly one place and take the train everywhere else. I don't know. But that's a very big, expensive whim, so I don't know how likely it is that I'll get to do it or not.

incidentally it's my birthday coming up soon. Considering I only know one concrete thing that I actually want (and it seems to be covered by morlock) I think I might brush the dust off my paypal account and be all like "gimme monies." and then use it towards one of the above, or towards making teh weddingthing kickass.

Incidentally, stormcloud and reverendtom we need to ... discuss. Can I find you on IM sometime this weekend?