My Mark

I have been planning a trip to California for this weekend for a few weeks now. For any of you who know my husband know that he hates spending money and avoids it at all costs. He has a amazing talent at budgeting......or should I say more like a hobby:) He has graphs and charts that can show us how much money we spent in groceries or gas in 2006 compared to now. A few of my girlfriends even called him after they got married to teach them his skill:) After begging and begging he finally agreed to the vacation. We started looking for hotels last night and planning the trip which was our first mistake. We shouldn't of waited so long to book a hotel because they were all crazy expensive. After finding a hotel and pricing everything out it ended up costing us almost $400....It had taken us almost 3 hours to even get to this point. At that very moment I looked at Mark and noticed his usual "what are we doing" face. I started thinking about just cancelling it all together because the thought of spending that much money for 3 days in Cali was making me sick too. Before I opened my mouth to say something the most brilliant idea hit me!!!! I look at Mark and say, "I'll cancel the trip if you make a deal with me right now and shake on it!" His eyes get all big and he gets all excited because I am even considering not spending all of this money. So then I say, "If you give me $100 to go shopping and let us go to breakfast Monday morning we can cancel the trip right now." I am thinking how genius I am for even coming up with this plan while I explain how much money I am going to save him. Without even thinking Mark shakes on it and says, "For that we can go out to breakfast twice!!" I get all excited thinking I pulled one over on him because in normal circumstances the answer to the shopping spree would of been, "well we can see how much money is left after we budget" or "you look great, you don't need anymore clothes" and then it hits me....I could of asked for $200 and he probably still would of agreed, I started too low!! So I mention this and he says that we had already shook on it!! Then I say $150 and he says $125 LOL some how Mark still won in this scenario BUT at least I will have some nice new clothes to show for it! Love you sweets!