This blog is about honesty too, right? Here goes:

I ran a lot of errands today, and bought a lot of things that my friend asked me to get for her. I also bought three books, two paperbacks from Half Price and a Sudoku book from Barnes & Noble. I paid for the Sudoku book with a gift card, so I think that was okay, and I'm not too guilty over the books, since I have at least twenty hours on a plane and another seven or eight hours waiting in airports coming up, not to mention a quick flight to LA the weekend after...even more waiting in airports.

No, what I feel guilty over is a dress. I stopped in at Ross to pick up a coffee press and as I walked through the store, a dress caught my attention. It was $27? Something like that. I was surprised at the low price and riffled through the rack, picking up another dress that was only $17, and then another...that was almost identical to the second except for color. I wandered toward the dressing room as I looked at the tag. "$5.99". SIX DOLLARS. I tried them all on, still not really thinking, not really believing that they could be so inexpensive and look all right. The six dollar one looked the best.

Now I had a problem. On one hand...I wasn't supposed to be shopping for unnecessary things. On the other hand, I didn't have a "little black dress" at the moment, and six dollars was hardly going to break the bank.

I bought it.

At least I stuck to my resolution of only eating out with other people.