11:32 Late Tuesday Morning   Life is expensive I'm in a listing sort of ...mood lately. In between being happy and being sad, i'm being listy. well it's better than being listless (ba-dum-tsh). So lately there are a lot of things I want to do, a lot of very expensive things I want to do. In order of urgency... Expensive List of Things I Want to Buy/Do: - A trip for 2 to Portland. I did some budgeting and a week in Portland would be about $1050 for Caleb and I. This is a definite thing that will happen. I already bought tickets as i've previously mentioned. - A motorcycle. I can probably get a small, efficient, useful motorcycle for hopefully in the vicinity of $500. I'll probably look for one over the winter. - Trip to New Zealand. return flights are usually between $800 and $1200, and depending on how long I stay...well it'll be an expensive trip, but it always is. - A house. I've been saving for a house for years and years, and my parents are thinking about investing with me. so if they put half into a 100 k house with a 20% down payment and a mortgage of about 500 per month, well. that's eventually 100 thousand of which i'll pay eventually 50 thousand...and then either buy the other half from my parents or when i sell it they get half of the property. - INSURANCE?! medical, home owners, car, natural disasters.... god almighty. I don't even know how much that will be. - Utilities? hopefully not more than $500 a month, right? RIGHT?! - A university education. HOPEFULLY that will be "free." That's why i need to achieve good grades. yeah. woo scholarships? - Um, a wedding?!?!?!?!?!!!? Who knows how much that will be?! and then a honeymoon! oh man. what what what. growing up is totally crap. I should get paid just for being awesome, and have these things given to me. yeah. that'd be good. come on life, work on that for me. yeah so i've REALLY been limiting petty spending lately. I'll make my MED club performance costume out of fabric scraps if I have to. I really should go to work more often. maybe next semester when i'm not taking 18 hours i'll have more time. this is totally depressing. how on earth am i meant to afford life?