Monstrous

Things I Want
An organ file to keep appliance manuals in / ~$15.00
A tripod (or Gorillapod) / ~$40.00

Things I Actually Bought
(Over several days)
Shipping / $4.60
Magazine Subscription payment / $17.00
Birthday lunch for Coworker Joe / $13.35
Bananas / $1.33
Various Fuses to fix Aerogarden / $16.45
Movie + Popcorn, etc. / $34.50 (SONS OF BITCHES)
Cat litter / $26.93
Sundries and Christmas gifts / $162.00
Lunches for the week / $9.45

So, maybe it’s a bad season for this little fiscal experiment of mine. In good news, I am one gift certificate away from being done with Christmas shopping. There remains some crafting to be done, but that ought to be relatively painless. So I think.

Tonight is concert night! :) Powla, Curt and I are off to the Pond to see Diamond Dave and Van Halen, whooOooooo! Beers and Nacho!

The last beer and nachos I will be having for six-ish months. Dude, getting married is stressful, and it’s only like three days in. I’m getting stressed thinking about planning for it.

The parents are ostensibly Catholic. I don’t know about my extended family, but my grandfather certainly is Catholic. Curt’s an atheist, and I’m agnostic. Not only would it be a filthy, stinking lie to have a Catholic ceremony, it’s a lot of trouble and expense. Curt has agreed, if it comes to it, to take the Catholic classes so we can do the Catholic wedding, but I can’t see him handling it well if they prod too deep. Plus, I don’t really want to do it, and I read that people have been FAILED out of Catholic wedding classes.

Really? Way to support happy marriages. We don’t want to be in your stinky-finky Catholic club anyway.

That’s me, being optimistic before-the-fact.