Word of the Day: lucid car - $130 JD's mom - $100 food - $97.76 entertainment - $18 dentist - $51 gas - $11.25 miscellaneous - $53.56 ________________________ total = $461.57 total income [for me] for January [so far] - $750.38 total savings [for me] for January [so far] - $288.81 I did break down, though, and made a totally frivolous purchase today. They added the in-store maternity section at Old Navy, and I couldn't keep myself away. I bought two shirts and a pair of sunglasses. I justified this by telling myself I haven't spent a lot of money on my maternity wardrobe at all and I needed something to wear [other than my t-shirts that no longer fit without stretching, and I don't want to stretch my t-shirts] for hanging out at home. I have no real justification for the sunglasses other than I wanted them, but the shirts were bought for a reason. And none of that made me feel better. I want to get a haircut, but then I don't want to get a haircut. I want a change, but I don't know what. I want to wait until my hair's long enough and get it cut for Locks of Love again, but JD told me I should get it cut if I wanted to before Baby's born so that Baby could know me with short hair instead of having to relearn what I look like. Maybe by March I'll be able to get ten inches off and still have it not frighteningly short. Right now, I think twelve inches [the ten for LoL and the two for leeway and evenness] hits me in the middle of my ear, which is scary. I was thinking that I should get and use makeup, but that's an investment I don't have the money for at the moment. Ah, I don't know, this is frustrating. I keep having really strong flashbacks of Rome. At random times, I'll see, clear as day and right in front of me, that internet cafe in Prague just on the other side of the Charles Bridge, or the rocks and the sky of that path up to that theatre in Segesta in Sicily. I'll have flashes of the Mensa, of walking down to the Capp Bar, of punky, 80's-loving youth rebelling in the Metro. It's really frustrating also. I wish I could just get over the fact that I'm not back at school, that's all lost to me. But, instead, I can't get it out of my mind. Problematic. But I really do like my new sunglasses. So there, conscience. Take that.