Financial woes

It's hard being in charge of your own finances, especially when you've never been spoiled and have always needed to take care of things yourself.

I've been employed by the campus since my freshman year of college (although one summer I worked for an insurance company), so I couldn't really do much other extracurriculars except my a cappella group, which took up a lot of time, and cut into potential work time, but was worth making time for.

Now all I do is work.

What sucks is that this year I've been unfortunate enough to have to suffer so many financial crises, such as--
1. In April, right after spring break, my laptop broke. Seeing as how I was in the middle of all my paper-writing and music director-handling, I had to get a new one ASAP. My parents helped me out with this one, for which I gladly accepted their help, and what I consider a grad gift to me. :P
2. In April/May I also got 3 tickets: $75 parking, $25 expired registration, and $386 speeding. I'm still in the process of seeking a fine reduction on the last one..
3. My camera broke two weeks ago. I'm going to Hawaii in about a month and a half, so it's totally necessary that I need to buy a new one. This is like the least costly of my expenses, but still costly and unplanned for. I have to wait a week to get on this, though.
4. This morning I woke up to find that my phone hadn't been charging, although the charger was plugged in. When I pulled the charger thing out of the port, several gold prongs fell out. I'm pretty sure those are vital to its life, so when I called T-Mobile, there wasn't really much they could do about it since it's no longer under warranty. Another $200 for a new phone, although it's a nice phone (my first Smart phone, holla).
5. This is not really a crisis but it was still unplanned for: I paid for my own Hawaii airfare, and will be financing my own trip. It will totally be worth it, though.

Now it may seem like I'm ballin', but really, I just work hard. I try not to ask for my parents for help unless I really, really need it, so life gets hard. I make a lot of social sacrifices in order to make my life function. So far it's been going pretty well, but right now and lately I've just been struggling. Understandable.

Just don't question why I may seem irritated at you when you're bragging about buying this and that from this store and that store. I probably love you, but hate you at the moment.

Sometimes I wish I were spoiled.