You May As Well be Hanged for a Cake Pop as for a Venti Latte, amirite? | What Did I Spend Last Week? Nov 8-14, 2021
I forgot to tot up last week’s total; the money diary, an exercise that used to be written all at once – with sporadic breaks to check Instagram – has now become something I must start and stop, abandon and come back to, in order to tend to all of the other demands in my life (honestly, it would be impossible to overestimate these demands).
Anyway, I needn’t have worried about it as my Dad helpfully FaceTimed me on that very same day to let me know. “You never put in a total!” he said, accusingly. And then: “It was twelve hundred dollars. You know, you’re actually disgraceful…”
I’m so glad he reads my work.
Monday
Having given in to the reality that I will be ordering the occasional morning Starbucks for the foreseeable future – I can’t seem to so much as pour myself a bowl of cereal on mornings the baby has decided I am his personal pillow / drinks fountain – I decide to fork out for the Uber Eats pass, which gives me free delivery. ($9.99)
And yes, I know that’s oxymoronic; if I’m paying for it, it’s hardly free! But you know what I mean. For $9.99 per month, you don’t pay any more delivery charges. They still get you on the service fees though…
Anyway, I order my morning Starbucks: an almond croissant, a venti non-fat latte and two reindeer cake pops for the boys. I always think that it makes more sense to order extra bits when you’re paying a service fee anyway. My brain’s financial logic is, I know, flawed. ($24.63)
For the rest of the day I function exclusively as the aforementioned personal pillow-slash-drinks fountain for a baby who does not wish to be put down at all. It’s lovely but also exhausting. I have things to do! Washes to put on! Emails to respond to!
I decide to try to just enjoy it, especially as everyone I so much as glance at loves telling me this time will be over before I know it, so I start the third season of You and prepare myself for a lot of couch time for the rest of the week.
When the boys get home they practically inhale their cake pops. I make a sort of pasta bake with pasta and bolognese and buffalo mozzarella which, obviously, they refuse to eat, so they have boxed mac and cheese and I try not to be offended.
Brandin and I watch our now-daily episode of The Sopranos before our 9.30pm bedtime, which seems to be the time we have to go to bed at if we want the baby to sleep for so much as two hours straight. What a wonderful life!
Total: $34.62
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