I got my first chunky paycheck today – a paycheck for the past 2 weeks of coaching at the female-only club. I get paid in cash so I felt so damn rich walking out of the gym with that much money in my bag. I know it’s not much to the average worker but I’m a starving athlete and I’ve been so starving that on some days I steal apples and milk from Food Basics, it’s true. The money I get from Korea pays for my rent, my TTC monthly and leaves me with about enough loose change to get a Starbucks coffee. I used to pick up random other jobs, like extra work in commercials and personal training for cash to cover my groceries but it’s so infrequent so I hold on to my money and only spend it on necessities. But there it was today, a chunk of cash in my hands. I folded the load and stuffed it into my pocket. And with a pocket full of cash, I headed out to get stuff that I needed but hadn’t the money to buy.
My list of things I need/really want to buy with this paycheck:
new running shoes
new collar for Balboa
hair appointment – dye and cut
lip gloss
nail polish
liquid eyeliner
new high heel shoes
agility ladder
facial lotion
I’m desperately needing two pairs of shoes – runners for when I’m coaching and heels for going out, church. A third pair will be needed soon, runners for running. I got new runners today, downtown at the Eaton Centre, and I scored a big discount. They were already at 40% off and then I scored an additional 10% off because they were the last pair.
I really wanted to buy a new collar for Balboa. He’s been so good to me and I wanted to buy him a cool leather one with metal spikes on it. I went on quite the hunt for such a collar, travelled all the way to Bloor West Village but had no such luck.
I didn’t end up buying everything on my list, didn’t even buy half of the things. Am still very careful with my money. “Save it for a rainy day”, like my dad used to say.
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