Someone keeps putting fruit in our yard!  I don’t want to say they’re throwing it… but it gets there somehow.  That is two green apples and an orange.  Yesterday, my dad brought in an orange that my mom threw away (cause she found it on the counter, and started asking questions — I just told her to toss it).

But then last week, there were two other red apples.  One was a Delicious, and the other looked like a Macintosh.

What gives with the fruit?

**click on the picture so the photo gets bigger.  I like how the very middle of the photo is sharp, but all the edges are blurry.  Weird!  I took this with my iPhone on my way to my library meeting (I walked).**

Megan recently wrote in her blog about the difference between her trying not to spend money, and me trying not to spend money.

As you all know, this is Buy Nothing Month. I’ve done VERY well.  I have absolutely nothing to show for my month (I haven’t bought any new clothes, bought any soda or coffee while out, haven’t bought any trinkets, or candy, or gum, or anything like that).  I haven’t even bought new sneakers, which I need to.  I think it’s because I don’t want to go out shopping.  I’m avoiding it.

I did, however, go to that movie, the Secret Life of Bees, last night with my mom.  It was good, and all three of us girls cried.  It was based on the novel of the same name, which we read for book club several years ago.  I think it’s also one of Sally’s favorite books.  It was only $5, and I paid with a $10 dollar bill, so I got a $5 back that I will save!

But Megan is right, I haven’t done as much fun things as she has.  But I have gone to Hooligans twice with friends, and to Destare  twice, once with friends, and once with my dad and friends during a planning meeting of the next beer fest. I also went to the most recent debate with friends.  But I haven’t been to any concerts or gigs or art museums.

And yes, I have a car.  I put $34 of gas into it two weeks ago today, and I’ve driven 111 miles, and still have half a tank left.  I had to drive to Worcester to get my brother which accounts for about 50 miles. I wish that I had taken one of my parents cars, cause that would be more representative of how much I actually use my car.  I also have been driving to the house where I babysit, and that’s in Leominster.  There’s no way I could walk there.  It takes me a full 20 minutes to drive there (sometimes a little more).  I live very close to Destare, and wish I could walk there, but I would be walking to (now with it getting dark so early) and home from work in the dark.  What I should do, is get some friends of mine from FSC to come in every night and stay until I leave, and then we can all walk home together.  But I don’t think that’s really a reasonable thing to have happen.  But Megan is right, if I could walk to work and the grocery store safely, I definitely would.  I walked to the grocery store yesterday after walking to the gym.  I bought milk (in cardboard!), some veggies, and some fruit.  So unless Megan thinks I should start walking home from a bar at 3 in the morning, I think I’m going to continue calling my car a necessity.  Plus, I don’t even think people from work would LET me walk home.  They’re crazy enough about watching us girls to make sure we get into our cars safely.  But I would totally love to live in a city where I can walk everywhere.  I would sell my car in a heartbeat!

Ohh… but I did give my dad $65 for my cell phone this month.  Eekkk…. that’s more than $2 a day!  That’s a lot of money.  But I was paying about $50 for my phone before I got my iPhone, so its really not too bad.  And I had to pay an extra $9 cause I went over on text messages…. by a lot.  But that will not happen this month!  (I have 200 texts for $5, the next up plan is 1500 texts for $15 — $10 more, so I went over $9, which is $1 less than if I had the more expensive plan.)

I think that the main difference between Megan and I, is that she does a lot more fun things than I do.  I don’t really have that many friends that I hang out with, plus, she has a husband that she does things with.  When I had a boyfriend who I hung out with all the time, I did fun things, too!  Lately, I’m trying to take note on when things are happening up at the college, and I’m trying to do them.  Tonight, there is a DJ at Hooligans (a DJ?  at Hooligans?  Why?), but it’d be something to do.  Wednesday is my night to try to do fun stuff.  I have a meeting tonight at the library about fundraising, but other than that, I have no plans.

So I think that Megan needs to weigh doing fun stuff, with spending the money on doing the fun stuff.  Unless you can find tons of stuff to do for free, you’re going to have a hard time trying to do both (fun stuff, and saving money).  Maybe it’s that Megan needs to not do so much, or do more things that don’t cost anything!

And that I need to do more fun things.