A Nearly Sub-$1,000 Week | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Nov 20-26, 2023
…my baby's not a baby any more
Monday
Atlas is at Robin’s today, and I have quite a long list of things to do related to work – edit a podcast episode, publish a piece on Substack, submit a content piece that’s due today – which I miraculously get done before lunchtime, meaning I have absolutely no excuse not to go and get the passport photographs that are the final hurdle in getting my Green Card application sent off.
I need six, and there’s a Walgreens around the corner, so despite my sister telling me to go to the post office – something about Walgreens being slow and borderline incompetent, based on the time she went and had passport photographs taken for her whole family, only to have them rejected for not being up to par – I decide to risk it, something I start to regret when I realise that no one in Walgreens seems to know much about this photo service they claim to provide.
I do get my six passport pictures, but it takes 45 minutes, time I could have taken to, I don’t know, wash my hair and put on some makeup (I had decided that the perfect passport-picture-taking conditions were never going to present themselves, so I went in my oversized minty-blue jumper and leggings, with not a scrap of makeup on and my hair tied in a messy bun). It’s also extortionately priced. ($52.54)
Anyway, this has all taken such a long time that I feel like there’s no point in further delaying things, so I drive downtown to drop the photos in to my lawyer’s office in person – otherwise God knows how long it would’ve taken me to get them to him.
On the way home, as a reward for all of my hard work, I grab a coffee and a mini apple pie thing from Conjure Coffee ($11.88).
I have about 45 minutes at home to drink my coffee and eat my pie and at least try to put some kind of snas on the kitchen before I’ve to go and pick Atlas up from Robin’s and drive straight to Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids, a hairdresser across town picked because they specialise in (you guessed it) cutting children’s hair, and I’m incredibly apprehensive about how he’s going to take this.
As it happens, it’s not the haircut that proves problematic; Atlas screams crying the whole way there (a 30-minute drive) and back (40 minutes this time because of traffic), but manages to pull himself together for the actual haircut itself, when he sits in a little converted power wheels car, watches Bluey and eats Doritos.
As for the haircut: I hate it. I’m sure it’s fine, but I just wasn’t ready for him to suddenly look like a little boy. ($45)
When we get home, we cook some chicken tenders and tater tots in the air fryer, then it’s pretty much time for bath and bedtime, after which I, still very committed to my Goodreads challenge, sit down to read my book for an hour or two.
A cheque I sent my accountant clears (they helped us file our taxes at the start of the year, for which I totally forgot to pay) ($300) and my payment for Sophie White’s Substack ($6) comes out.
Daily total: $415.42
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