what was I thinking?!

I made a mistake today.

Well, first of all Brian is sick. Now on the one hand, this is terrible since he's tired and coughing with a sore throat. It is especially terrible because he will drag himself to work tonight to do manual labor for 4-6 hours. However, this does have a small, itty-bitty upside. He claims to never get sick. I've been married to him for nearly 6 years so I know this a lie or some sort of male denial. While I don't enjoy his illness, I do enjoy his being wrong. I hope my marriage lasts another 6 years dispite these feelings...

Back to me and the mistake. Since he is sick I drove to work today. I don't have a campus parking pass because there is a campus bus which goes right by my house. BUT, they've stopped running the bus over winter break. Just my luck. Brian's been driving me the last few days, BUT I say again, he's sick. He was pathetic when he tried to get up, so I told him I'd drive and park in the pay to park deck. Walking would have taken too long, and I didn't want to be late to work. I'll save that until 6 months into the job at least. I figured the deck would cost about $3 or so. Turns out it's $6. Now this may not seem like big money to most of you out there, but that's my fun money for the week. I guess Starbucks will have to go without my business for the week. I hope they can continue to keep their doors open during this temporary setback.

This is the mistake I made. What happened to my life that $6 is a hardship. While I am soo glad to be in school, I miss disposable income. Those of you out there with real jobs who don't think they have disposable income, consider $6. If that doesn't seem like a big deal, you actually do have disposable income. I miss mine...