A Wedding in the South | How Much Did I Spend Last Week? Sep 9-15, 2024

Monday

This week is a short one as we’re going away on Thursday to a wedding, which is making it feel like I have 10,000 things to do before we leave. Of course, 9,999 of those could probably be put off until we get back… but is that making a difference to me?! No it is not!

I have a physical therapy appointment this afternoon, so once I drop Atlas to his babysitter’s I come home, have breakfast of Frosted Flakes and coffee, and get working on editing a podcast episode I want to finish and get scheduled before I leave.

I actually manage to get it done – I am, honestly, the most productive when I feel time-strapped and stressed – and then head off a little early to drop my entire boot’s worth of stuff to Goodwill beforehand.

I always have a little “oh… do I really want to donate that?!” panic when I get there, but today I push past the discomfort and don’t take a single thing back out of the boxes as I’m handing them over. A first!

My PT appointment goes well enough – again, we’re working on hip and pelvis mobility, and loosening the muscles around my hip flexors, with the aim of helping ease some of the pain and discomfort I’ve been having. (I pay a $40 co-pay)

After PT, I pick up groceries from Walmart, again remembering too late that picking these up during the day means I’ll have to be the one to unpack and put them away!

I resist the urge to martyr myself, though, and just put up the perishables, leaving the rest for Brandin to get when he gets home.

Then I head back up to the office to write a piece – about physical therapy, kind of, but moreso about my feelings heading into the birth of this baby, because I have a lot of those and I haven’t butted up against Substack’s word limit yet!

I pick Atlas up because Brandin is slightly late leaving work, then come home and get cracking on making us dinner of pasta and bolognese, with little garlic knots we got in Aldi (Kroger’s are better, honestly).

We have a very chill evening, get Atlas in bed by 8pm, and then I record two episodes of the pod with Bea before our bedtime.

My Uber Eats subscription comes out ($9.99) – which has just reminded me to cancel it! (I use DoorDash more… but also, need to stop using them both if I want to have 2 red cents to rub together during my “maternity leave”.)

Daily total: $49.99