I hate money
Mar. 26th, 2004 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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whirledpeas is having a birthday dinner at her favorite restaurant, Japanese Steakhouse. Of course my Jennifer and I were invited, and we want nothing more than to be able to whoop it up with a bunch of our friends. /And/ get the fun musical instruments when the little old man comes out to sing the birthday song.
But Japanese Steakhouse is really expensive, like "twice as much as a usual dinner out for us" expensive. And we're stressing so much about money already, trying to scramble for the move. We've got about $3000 saved. We need at least $2000 more. In a short time. Yeah.
So we were stuck in a terrible Catch-22. We could both go, and both eat, and not be able to do anything else this weekend that costs any money because it would blow our weekend budget out of the water. We could both go, and I could not get a dinner - but I'm not sure the restaurant would allow that, and Jen said she would feel weird about it. We could send Jen only, so it would only cost half as much (and besides, she likes steak) - but she says she would feel guilty because I wasn't there, and that she would feel awkward because everyone else is coupled up. We could both not go, but then we would feel like bad friends who skipped out on our good friend's birthday.
Whichever option makes me feel like a bad banana with a greasy black heel. I had to callwhirledpeas to tell her that Jen would be going, and she sounded disappointed and I felt like a big jerk. So now I'm a big jerkitty jerk jerk and am sitting at work feeling heavily jerkified.
I really hate money.
whirledpeas is having a birthday dinner at her favorite restaurant, Japanese Steakhouse. Of course my Jennifer and I were invited, and we want nothing more than to be able to whoop it up with a bunch of our friends. /And/ get the fun musical instruments when the little old man comes out to sing the birthday song.But Japanese Steakhouse is really expensive, like "twice as much as a usual dinner out for us" expensive. And we're stressing so much about money already, trying to scramble for the move. We've got about $3000 saved. We need at least $2000 more. In a short time. Yeah.
So we were stuck in a terrible Catch-22. We could both go, and both eat, and not be able to do anything else this weekend that costs any money because it would blow our weekend budget out of the water. We could both go, and I could not get a dinner - but I'm not sure the restaurant would allow that, and Jen said she would feel weird about it. We could send Jen only, so it would only cost half as much (and besides, she likes steak) - but she says she would feel guilty because I wasn't there, and that she would feel awkward because everyone else is coupled up. We could both not go, but then we would feel like bad friends who skipped out on our good friend's birthday.
Whichever option makes me feel like a bad banana with a greasy black heel. I had to call
whirledpeas to tell her that Jen would be going, and she sounded disappointed and I felt like a big jerk. So now I'm a big jerkitty jerk jerk and am sitting at work feeling heavily jerkified.I really hate money.
