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                  Hey, good morning :)

morning

sup?

                  Not much, doing some
                  homework, wanting to chat.
                  How are you?

good

I got your package last night

thank you for the headphones

                  Ohh yeah? Which one.

the one w/ the tree

...there's more than one?

                  Holy crap, that got there fast.

                  Lol.

yeah

                  Well you're welcome for the
                  headphones. :)

                  We never had a Christmas tree
                  together, and I remembered you
                  always asking for one.

                  So, that's the best I can do for
                  now.

                  Are you there or on sipr?

here

reading my email

                  Mmm

do you need any money for
bills?

                  Well it's up to you. I know I
                  would appreciate it.

I paid off my loan a few days
ago

so idk how much is actually in
my acct

how much would you need?

                  Do you still think 1000 is a fair
                  amount?

                  That loan was the one you took
                  right before you left?

yeah

idk about the 1000...

i mean, you get the 500 from *roomate*

idk

                  Well tell me what you feel about
                  it.

i wanted to save some money
while i'm here

and i feel like between the 1000 i
give you, the money i give my
mom and paying stuff off i'm not
going to save anything

i'm finally done paying everything
off

but i was planning on giving my
mom at least 450 a month

                  I can see that, with your mom
                  occasionally requiring help.

oh

i ordered some stuff yesterday

it should show up at the house
in the next week or so, idk

i meant to send it to my mom's
house b/c part of it is your
christmas present, part is my
sisters, and some of it is for me

but it's coming to the house

                  Hmm. Does taking that 450 a
                  month out of the thousand sound
                  better? So that's only 550 to me.

so neway, the book is for you

the jaws t-shirt if for *sister*

and the rest is mine

is that enough?

i don't remember the breakdown

how much are you getting a
month now?

                  The breakdown was a little over
                  a thousand a month each.

                  But remember, I've always kept it
                  so I could manage all our bills by
                  myself. It just really helps when
                  we both pay them.

                  So the money you have been
                  giving me, I've been splitting
                  between a few things.

                  I was going to keep this a
                  surprise, but the current book
                  I'm reading says that at this
                  point nothing should be kept a
                  secret.

                  But I recently opened up a
                  savings acct, that I was putting
                  money into for us to take a
                  vacation or something like that
                  when you got back.

                  If you were willing of course

?

                  Actually before I started talking
                  to you, I called *bank* to try and
                  give you access to both that,
                  and my account. So you could
                  see everything.

                  But they were closed.

                  But I've been putting some into
                  that, paying off debt, and stuff
                  that's popped up. Like our
                  garbage disposal broke.

it broke or you broke it? lol

                  Lol, I don't know.

                  But *roomate* was like dude, it
                  just humms.

                  So I took it apart (which was
                  icky btw) and got it to spin
                  again.

                  But then we hooked it all back
                  up, and the disposal unit itself
                  leaked really bad.

fail

                  So I probably caused the leak,
                  but it wasn't spinning. I guess
                  both it broke and I broke it. Lol

                  Hey! I tried. Lol.

well i'd rather you just tell me
how much you need for the bills

the savings acct is nice but I
want to save my own money

anyway - i have to get back to
work =\

bai

                  Well ugh. I don't want to get
                  into the your vs my money. It
                  was a flawed idea. I pictured it
                  as what I had left over
                  personally, I put in there.

                  For recreational stuff for us.

                  The 1000 is what the breakdown
                  was. But since I can see your
                  side too, is 550 low enough?

                  Ugh, that still makes me feel like
                  I am shouldering most of the
                  responsibility.

                  I can see how you might take it
                  as me just saving money for you,
                  disrespecting your own
                  judgement when it comes to
                  money. But at the same time I
                  feel the house is both of our
                  responsibilites and I feel taken
                  advantage of when you are
                  earning an income and only pay
                  a tiny portion of the bills. It
                  makes me feel like you get to
                  keep all the money you earn for
                  whatever you want, while all
                  mine has to go to the house, the
                  bills, the cats, etc.

                  I don't know, it's tough but I
                  would like to come to a mutual
                  agreement where neither of us is
                  unhappy about it.

                  I love you, forever and ever.
                  Goodnight.