interesting weekend. skiing in tahoe. put up at a swanky hotel ($300 a night! sheesh), a day of skiing (fun, though very snobby people ski at heavenly, i have now discovered. as well as the damn snowboarder that crashed into me), a massage, a $1100 dinner (for 10 of us, but still, it is by far the biggest tab i have ever seen)...all paid for by dan's company. figured they spent over $1000 on us this weekend.

guess i get a taste for the weekend how i would live if i had Too Much Money. i drank $4 water from the minibar, a $3 cup of coffee, a $65 bottle of wine...sounds like quite the life, eh? it certainly isn't all it's cracked up to be. i would've much rather had $1000 and had them give dan a week off of work so we could drive all over the place, camping and climbing. with $1000 we could camp like kings. and still have money left over.

it just seemed like such a waste to me...a $1100 dinner? $1100? it's just wrong. could've fed many families for weeks on end. i was embarrassed to spend money like that. felt so selfish. i guess the company provides it as an 'award' for making the employees give up their lives for their jobs. i'd rather have a husband that came home at 6pm everyday than some extravagant weekend. why does the business world have such a screwed up value system? make 'em work 70 hour a week...and give them a weekend away every year. huh? and that's supposed to be a fair trade? it baffles me. i guess that's why i work for myself. i just do't understand it.