Our trip's coming up, we decided to take a road trip down to California - in my girlfriend's car. We wanted to go to Europe (she did, at least), but neither of us have the money. California will be plenty of fun anyways. It's been raining so hard, I can hardly wait to get in the sunshine...

My parents are back on my case again, they keep bugging me. It's about money, of course. They gave me just under a thousand bucks when I moved out, to help with the first few months' rent. Now they're acting like it was a loan, and they NEVER mentioned that when they gave it to me. I don't have a grand in my bank account, that's why I needed the money in the first place! On top of it they keep pressuring me to go to university or college or something. How do they expect me to do that and pay them back at the same time?

Besides, I need the money from my job right now. Maybe after I save a little, I can go back to school, but not this year.