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lenora_roseSo Brannie gifted me Heather Dale's the Gabriel Hounds for late birthday, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taleisin did the same for Sherwood Smith's King's Shield (Which, with the arrival of Bear's books changed my to-read lsit to include both that and my current read, New Amsterdam)....
.... and I still ended up spedning frivolous money better saved for other times. Well before October.
But not on DVDs, or CDs or books, or comics, or etc.
I bought something, shall we say, pretty to wear for my husband. To make up for the incredible business of the pre-wedding weeks, and the lack of time spent together, in general and in, ah, specific. Which types of things are also more expensive than books.
Let's just say it was effective (And pretty).
But his comment, regarding the expense, wasn't the expected semi-mock 'you shouldn't have done that', was "It's just money."
This is the same husband who admits he's sometimes very unreasonable about our debt, even when it's less debt than many. About how much things cost, etc. There are times he really does wish we both could be more frugal. And sometimes steps he tries to take to that end (brown-bagging rather than buying lunch, trying to get us to eat in more.)
On the one hand, it's commendable for him to be able to let it go sometimes. (except when shrugging off money matters also means, say, not submitting his income taxes or insurance paperwork because it's paperwork, though the money would help with the debt. Which is due to a loathing for paperwork that is beyond all reason.) On the other hand, my yielding to temptation is not helping my intention to save and focus on school, or the big expense of going to World Fantasy Con, or to cut down on purchasing in general.
Mostly the last. SO many books! So little time! SO easy to forget to return things to the library and therefore end up spending on them anyway. (Of course, that as due to the wedding, too... for the most part.) So easy to make excuses.
taleisin did the same for Sherwood Smith's King's Shield (Which, with the arrival of Bear's books changed my to-read lsit to include both that and my current read, New Amsterdam)........ and I still ended up spedning frivolous money better saved for other times. Well before October.
But not on DVDs, or CDs or books, or comics, or etc.
I bought something, shall we say, pretty to wear for my husband. To make up for the incredible business of the pre-wedding weeks, and the lack of time spent together, in general and in, ah, specific. Which types of things are also more expensive than books.
Let's just say it was effective (And pretty).
But his comment, regarding the expense, wasn't the expected semi-mock 'you shouldn't have done that', was "It's just money."
This is the same husband who admits he's sometimes very unreasonable about our debt, even when it's less debt than many. About how much things cost, etc. There are times he really does wish we both could be more frugal. And sometimes steps he tries to take to that end (brown-bagging rather than buying lunch, trying to get us to eat in more.)
On the one hand, it's commendable for him to be able to let it go sometimes. (except when shrugging off money matters also means, say, not submitting his income taxes or insurance paperwork because it's paperwork, though the money would help with the debt. Which is due to a loathing for paperwork that is beyond all reason.) On the other hand, my yielding to temptation is not helping my intention to save and focus on school, or the big expense of going to World Fantasy Con, or to cut down on purchasing in general.
Mostly the last. SO many books! So little time! SO easy to forget to return things to the library and therefore end up spending on them anyway. (Of course, that as due to the wedding, too... for the most part.) So easy to make excuses.
