Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Expensive Valentine's Dinner!

Last night my husband took me to a very nice restaurant for dinner.  They had a special for $99.99 per couple.  It happens to be his bosses restaurant, and he pulled a lot of strings to get reservations as they were booked solid.  As I looked at our budget, I was a little concerned about spending $100 plus tip on dinner, )on a Monday when payday isn't til Friday), so I asked my husband if he wanted to go somewhere else since our 15 year old would be home alone.  He said "sure, but call right now to cancel the reservation"  Well, I called and the girl that answered was his bosses sister and when I told her the reason she said, "Just bring her along!"  I was stuck, but thinking that she could just order something cheap off the menu, I said "Ok, that sounds great"  Not wanting my husband to know that the real reason I wanted to change our plans was over money, I said "Let's go"  Well, let me tell you, not only was our couple meal $99.00, but our daughter's meal was $49.00, because you could'nt order off the menu with the special going on!!!!!!!!!!!!  So, our total came to $168.00 after tax, but before tip!!!!!!!!!  We ended up spending $188.00!! On dinner for 3.  So now, I am totally freaked out over our finances and barely got a moments sleep all night long!  Why do these things happen to me?  I am a magnet for this kind of stuff.  My husband said, "oh honey, don't worry about it, it was worth it."  Hello! it was totally not worth it!!!  It was a spinach salad,  tomato bisque, filet mingon, garlic mashed potatoes, steamed zucchini and yellow squash and bland steamed fish with marianara sauce. Dessert was  2 squirts of strawberry mousse in a chocolate violin with a couple slices of strawberry on the side.  Tell me where the $50 per meal came in!  I need to get over it and maybe hit the Amscot today so we can have food in the house this week!  I am NOT a cheap-skate, and the food was delicious, okay, I admit that, but give me a break.   I hope the rest of my week goes better.  The George Strait concert is Friday night and we are all looking forward to that.  I am going to run now.  The washer just stopped and I have a ton of laundry piled up to wash.  God bless you all, and if anyone wants to donate to our empty bank account let me know! (just kidding, unless you really do!)

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