A Lovely Evening

I just recently spent a lovely evening sipping wine and reading girly magazines at this place in Ocean Beach


Details Salon Spa

And I had a lovely time. What is better than a little girl talk, wine, and having your hair played with? I honestly don't know. I'm pretty sure my heaven will be a little something like that.

They use Aveda products that smell amazing. I love that. While this evening was not exactly cheap it was waaay worth it. I build this little evening of decadence into my budget so I 'save' for it for 3 months then head in to become glamorous again.

Speaking of budgeting, I use Mint and find it really helpful. It takes some time setting up and once you get over the scary factor that a secure website has all of your financial information (checking accounts, saving accounts, retirement accounts, student loans, credit cards, everything) it is really easy and helpful to use. I have set up budgets for my monthly expenses like rent, groceries, hair (this one is set up to allocate one third of what I expect the total to be for each month for three months), shopping, coffee shops, restaurants, you name it. Then throughout the month I can go to the site and check my status on my spending and see if I have room or if I seriously need to stop spending. Mint also sends weekly emails to keep you informed of your spending so you can't just forget about it. It's pretty awesome, I highly recommend it, oh yeah and its free. EVEN BETTER.

Anyways...

So after Elle worked her magic I looked a little something like this-


Please forgive the mess in the background. That's Boyfriend's stuff and we're moving...

Lovely if I do say so myself. If only I could replicate her magic on my own. Sighhhh
A girl needs a little responsible decadence every once in a while right? What do you do for a treat? Big or small? I think I have finally fixed the commenting snafu situation so comment and lets chat!