20-days to go....

That is hypothetically, 20 days to go before I become debt free.

Of course this bars any other major financial setbacks this week. I had a couple this weekend;

1. My GF & I went to a movie on Saturday morning. The movie was free through work and I fed the meter for exactly the 2 hours we would need but when I came back 1:40 later there was a ticket on windshield. I had 22 minutes left on the meter. Then I read the ticket and it noted the $40 bill/ticket(arrrgh!!!) was due to my lack of a front plate on my vehicle. For as long as I can remember I believe that Ohio has been a single-plate (on the back) state but apparently the meter maid thought differently.
   
2. I hung out with a friend at a bar Last night. I was attempting to just sit and drink water but I guess I was looking a little too bored. So of course the friend decided to buy a pitcher of some type of margarita and said "I could get the next round" - I hate that 'I'll buy then you buy trick' - the next round was at 'hipper' bar. I ordered the drinks, then asked the bartender what the current tab was. The bartender gave this condescending look then a few seconds later said $13. I considered giving no tip due to the condescending look [Excuuuuse me, for not wanting to go into debt for a temporary social poisoning]but decided on $2, and $15 was all I ended up paying.
   

I also paid for dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday for my girl but I figured this would be coming anyway.

Luckily I decided not to go in on Lottery tickets with my girlfriend on Friday. She spent $20 and said I could keep 10% of her winnings. An hour prior , I had explained to her and my brother that the 'Lottery is just a tax on the poor'. She dismissed this and said that the Lotto is 'fun'. 2 'fun' hours later she was 11 dollars poorer. She did make a $9 return off of two of the 10 cards that she bought. So in essence her return was about (correct me if I'm wrong) negative 55%!! I told her she could keep the $0.90 that she earned me. At least she had fun, right?