my first confession

I have decided to use this blog as a confessional. a spending confessional.

lets begin,
pack of camel turkish gold $8.00 .. horrible.
unlimited month subway pass: $75.00
medium starbucks iced black tea $2.71 (or so, didn't ask for reciept as i am trying to help cut down on useless paper)
thai lunch special of spring rolls and shrimp curry, iced thai coffee + tip $14.00

preface: intermix was having a huge sale!

plaid see by chloe blouse $59 (!!!)

yellow petals and pearl Kenneth jay lane ring $79

Hairspray movie ticket: free! (my friend treated me :)
small diet coke: $3.50 ....

total amount: $241.21

before i moved to nyc, my art teacher told me one of her students lived an entire summer on $7 a day.

the first

Today I ate spicy garlic eggplant and rice for lunch. Considering spicy and garlic are in the title, the dish was pretty bland. Did not help that all I had to accompany it was white rice and water. I'll probably finish off the meal with a smooth minty Nat Sherman.

Lately I've been worried that my average of 3-4 cigs a day is killing my taste buds. Whenever a companion at dinner exclaims how salty something is, I nod in agreement as to not draw attention to my dull buds. Further proof that my tasting senses are slacking is that when I consume other spicy asian dishes that register at about a 4 on the spicy and a 5 on the salty scale, at a reasonable hour (8-9pm ish) followed by several glasses of water, I wake up with a botox face; my features frozen in place by the severe swelling of eye lids and cheeks.

Does the saying that if you quit smoking before the age of 26 (or 30 according to some) you gain 95% of your lung capacity back, hold true for tastebuds?

On a more fashionable note, I will be visiting the brand spanking new 3.1 phillip lim store today! for work!