So It's Official...

I can not spend any money for the next 5 months that is not on preplanned events. Today I realized that I need to have money saved before August to buy plane tickets and pay for a hotel in Amsterdam. So other than the Philadelphia Pen show, a friends birthday next month, and Calligraphy class in April. I can not spend money on unnecessary items. This will be a very big challenge for me. This means no new books, pens, paper, inks or art supplies. I really don't know what I am going to do with myself. Before I realized this I had been planning on saving for a silkscreen kit. Well I guess this means I have to just play with whatever I do have and be happy that I at least have that. I can only take this one day at a time and pray that I don't slip up. I just hope that it is not going to be like the last time I went on a spending freeze, and everything I had ever wanted was now on sale. The worse was when I would go into the book store to pick up books for my mother and a book I had wanted to read was now out. Wow I'm really being a downer before anything has started. Wish Me Luck!