The countdown...

7 weeks until I am out of Estevan indefinitely...18 more days until I get to go back home for the long weekend. I swear. The weekends KILL me! I can honestly say that I am a well rounded girl, who won't end up in a strait jacket, banging my head against the wall if I am left alone, but these weekends really do shed some light on why people would do that!

Let's see, what makes this weekend so much more unbearable than the last month I've spent here? I think it's that I am didn't smoke today. Yep - I threw out pack #4 before I finished it. Instead, I listened to Monique and picked up a bottle of wine. That enjoyment lasted all of 30 minutes and now it's only 6:38pm and I am wondering what to do with my time again.

So far, I've watched: many episodes of Dexter S3, rewatched Sliding Doors and went to the gym and watched some of the FIFA final game (NED vs SPA).

What I should have done was get a life and golfed. It was a perfect day for it. Only, I am now extremely lazy and haven't been out other than to get food and work. Depressing! I know. sigh* Two more weekends of this and I'll be home.

After the boring afternoon in Regina, I don't even really want to go back there...even with the promise of sushi, viet, korean, african, greek, italian...etc foods.

Ok, I need to stop and find something to do before I go out and buy another pack. Ciao!

with it!

So I have officially been in Estevan for 11 days. Feels longer then that.

In my spare time (which I have a lot of now), I am fully immersed in the social media craze. Made a TWITTER account yesterday!

http://twitter.com/franpark

Feel I'll put some funny day to day happenings on that as blogging is definitely more effort. ;)

In this secondment for work, I have actually indirectly been forced into a detox of shopping and the only mega store here is Wal-Mart!

This past week, shopping for me consisted of shopping for food and household items, which I expense back to the company anyway :) SCORE!

So hopefully this summer will indeed be a detox of many things in my life...hope I don't pick up any other bad habits.

Day 47

I really do love fashion blogs - esp satorialist and garance. le sigh* it all looks so fabulous! no wonder I love to shop - vive la haute couture~

Day 40 or so?

Oh My'lanta!!

So Jen and I have officially called off the bet.

Trips shouldn't count! Back in TO, I will resume my strict regimen - $100 a month.

I will endeavour to continue my detox efforts while at home, but like I say (and like some of my friends say) Trips don't count!!!

Day 38

May the Force be with me in Atlanta!

Not sure I can do this. Already my mind swam to "well if I forgot something, I can just buy it!" Also, thinking I may finally pick up that Longchamp tote that I've wanted for years (lightest bag I would own).

Ah!!!!

Day 36

Haven't bought anything since Anthro pants last week. Guess it's because I've been working all week and haven't stepped into a store. :P Well actually I lie, I went to Forever21 and didn't get a thing *A-mazing*

So BIG tempation coming up next week - ATL baby! I have to admit with the dollar doing well so, it's a tease. le sigh~ I need to hold out til LA.

Which reminds me...need to pack some super cute (strictly dress to impress) outfits for my Cali trip. At least I can do laundry there so worst case, I can wear everything twice. In different cities. Ha!

Day 31 - 1 damn long month!

I am shame faced.

Amanda took me to Anthro yesterday so she could get HER dress and I (of course) HAD to check out their sale section. Found a pair of navy khaki's on sale for $20!!! WTF? Of course it fit me like a glove. $20?

So anyway, Amanda was going to buy it for me, but after I called to check with Jenn if this was "allowed". She said it was cheating. So Jenn and I decided - we should re-evaluate the rules.

Here are the NEW rules (much more realistic):

1. Each mth, get $100 to shop

2. If you don't use up the $100 w/in that mth, it can carry over into the next month

3. During the next 5 mths (Mar-Jul), we are allowed 1 big ticket item that has no cap.

4. At the end of 5 mths (the NEW extended deadline), we put into our savings $500 + the value of the big ticket item into our savings.

Deal? DEAL!

So I lasted 1 mth without shopping.

Here's to a less aggressive detox plan. Cheers!