Hemmoraging

Somebody stop me!!! I've turned to shopping as therapy to get me through these two months of being a bachelorette.

As some of you may know, and those of you who don't will probably find this amusing, I have a monthly clothing allowance. Well, these past two months I keep adding up the receipts and now both cells on my excel spreadsheet for April and May have turned red (yes, I have them conditionally formatted) and I still can't stop!! I keep moving funds from upcoming months to cover these overages, but it's not helping. What will happen in August when I want new fall clothes and my budget was blown in April?

Don't get the wrong impression of me, I'm still cheap. I guarantee you I didn't pay more than $29.99 for any one item, that's really the only reason I'm able to sleep at night.

I do have good reasons to be shopping. One, I'm doing so much work around here on my own and being so damn independent that I deserve to. And secondly, we've got two vacations coming up that a girl MUST have new clothes for.

I leave for DC this weekend. Since it's Memorial day weekend it will inevitably be hot (as hot as me in my new dress from TJ Maxx). I need fun new shorts and tanks to be the cutest tourist in the capital. Ben and I are then heading out to San Francisco/Wine Country over my birthday. Of course those temps are much cooler (as cool as me in my new gladiators from Target) so I'll need nice capri's, slacks, and light weight sweaters for that. AND did I mention it's my birthday? So of course I need new clothes!

See, all the purchases are justified but how do you tell that to an excel spreadsheet, or your husband? Actually, I've got the husband under wraps, I just show him how awesome the yard looks and how successful my garden is and he'll be just fiiinnnneeee with the overages.

I think.