Have you ever felt like it wasn’t your week?
I love to intro song to Friend’s, there is one line that say’s, “It’s like your always stuck in second gear, when it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year…”
Well, everything is going really well with me and Tom, so I really shouldn’t complain, but I just can’t stick to my financial goals this week. Tuesday, I had that bank mishap and then last night we ended up eating out unexpectedly- even though we wanted to cut back on our restaurant spending.
I had a super cheap and fun evening planned. In fact I had been planning this date night for weeks! I had found an ad in the paper for free movie nights in the park.
Not only did they have great movies (Sleepless in Seattle was last nights movie), but they also had local food vendors from the Saturday Morning Market. We were going to get dinner there, but it is always cheap (and good) food from those vendors. Technically it would have been “eating out”, but it would have been super cheap.
I had my entire bag packed: 2 bottles of water in my reusable bottles, a quilt, my special truffle oil popcorn, and camera. As we walked out of the house I noticed a huge storm cloud. But this is Florida and there is almost always a threat of rain. We decided to go anyway.
Since we love to walk, we decided to park a good 5 blocks away to avoid having to pay for parking. As we were neared the park it began to rain… hard. At this point we had a choice, go back in the rain or eat out at one of the many good restaurants in downtown St. Pete. Tom and I both get angry when we are hungry- so we chose to eat out at one of our favorites: The Moon Under Water.
It was a great dinner, I got the gyro and Tom got fish and chips. We got a couple of beers and declared it date night. We didn’t spend a fortune and we really enjoyed ourselves.
So I am going back on my last goal. I know I can’t completely wipe out going out to eat from our lifestyle. But I can try to limit it to once a week. So we already went out this week… we will have to stay in for the weekend I guess!
We thought the rain would pass over while we ate… we were terribly wrong! Here is a picture of us taking a break from the rain under a building:
I swear my hair was cute before we left! We made it back to the car soaking wet with nothing to dry our glasses. We had to turn on the heater in the car. But after 3 episodes of Dawson’s Creek and my truffle oil popcorn at home we finally managed to have the rest of our date night.
My mom has always told me, “You can plan plans, but you can’t plan results.” Well last night was one of those nights, we spent more than planned and didn’t get to do our movie in the park, but it was a great night that I wouldn’t change for the world.
How have your plans been changed?
It is the Schwinn 26″ Legacy Cruiser for $188 from Wal-Mart. I love to work out and I especially love my spinning classes, but I wanted my bike to be more for leisure. Tom got a bike from Wal-Mart too but we are taking his back, it was squeaky and the gears didn’t change right.
