Expenses Without Receipt

Starting from Tuesday, December 13:

• Well, let's go back to Monday, December 12 ... I love SiriusXM Holiday Pops, the Christmastime choral music/vocal ensemble channel.  I just love the music; I'm not the biggest classical fan, but it feels perfect when it comes to marrying it to the holiday and its themes.  Cantus is a vocal ensemble based in Minneapolis.  They sound great whenever I hear them on the channel (even though I haven't heard them yet this season, and I have been listening to Holiday Pops hardcore this year), and I popped in to see that they are touring the Twin Cities area ... and on Monday, they were at a high school auditorium ten minutes away from me!  Yeah, I am leaving on vacation two days hence, but this may be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so I bought a ticket to the concert (with a donation) and enjoyed the 90-minute program.  And I bought a CD, which I think is one from which I have heard a couple of their songs on the channel.  Hope I am right.  Cost of the CD: $20.
• Back to Thursday the 8th, where I decided to go to the local barber school to get a face shave.  I had planned on getting one closer to my trip, but 1) they are expensive as hell and 2) I feel as though I would have more trip-related things I would do that evening (not the case, by the way; on Tuesday evening I am writing this right now).  It was important for me to be as clean-shaven as close to Sunday as possible ... but I'll keep the reason to myself right now.  Shave plus tip equals: $12.
• On Wednesday the 7th I started shopping for my trip while ****e* was cleaning the house -- well, I went out to a secret bar first, then went to Target to Christmas shop for co-workers, and then I went to the Salvation Army to buy swim trunks.  I have swim trunks.  I know I have swim trunks.  But I haven't used swim trunks in about a decade, and so I am sure they wouldn't fit me.  I don't know if the ones I bought will fit me, either.  I don't think the Salvation Army has fitting rooms.  Anyway, at the cash registers they have their trademark red kettles, so I reached into my back pocket and scrounged up some change to put in there: 10 cents.
• Oh, and ****e* charged me (both for the cleaning and for letting me nibble on her titties): $220.
• To Tuesday, December 6 -- finally decided to go back to the movies for the first time in months.  There hasn't been a movie I wanted to watch until ... Wakanda Forever.  Yeah, I guess I'm a Marvel Cinematic Universe completist.  Ticket for Discount Tuesday, popcorn, pop: $10.75.
• Then I went to Fair State Brewery.  I was going to work on my EWRs and my monthly expense list, but then I reached into my computer bag and saw that I forgot either my bag of receipts, my pens, or both.  So I just ate an Aki's pretzel and drank a mulled cider cocktail.  With tip: $12.95.
• Back on Saturday the 3rd I stopped by Sarah Jane's Bakery to pick up some donuts for the group of people watching the World Cup later that morning at the Black Hart.  I might have some thoughts over the anxiety I felt of people not scarfing down donuts as soon as they saw them.  Anyway, I felt compelled to give cash for tip, so: $5.
• Then at the Black Hart I had a Summit, which was on sale all through the tournament.  With tip it set me back: $5.
• And then later that evening ******e jacked me off: $120.
• Thursday, December 1: This was the second of two days where I was working for a production crew in town doing the Minnesota Wild Game.  The managers have expense credit cards they can use, but when I went out the previous day to get groceries from Target and coffee from Starbucks, it didn't work.  I resorted to using my own card, and the manager faithfully paid me back.  An Infusion of: $55.
• Back to Sunday, November 27, where ******a came over to rub me down.  This is where she went a little crazy on me, and I haven't seen her since.  Cost: $120.
• Later that evening I went to Rick's, a stripclub in downtown Minneapolis, because a locally-famous porn star was working there.  Or she said she was: I never saw her.  Maybe she was busy.  Or, maybe she was lying.  At any rate, I got three table dances from a lithe spinner named Silk.  With cover, tips and a Corona this quick visit set me back: $98.
• Going back to Dranksgiving/Wednesday, November 23, I went to My Favorite Stripclub (Cover Edition) to see my ATF there.  It was embarrassing that I didn't notice her on the upper stage while I walked past her to look at the list of strippers.  I think she was hollering at me and I completely ignored her.  I feel bad because she doesn't look like she did before, and I am treating her like she's completely unrecognizable.  But I got 22 table dances from her.  With cover, drinks for her and I and tips, the total price was: $259.
• All the way back to Saturday, November 12, where I went to the Cedar Cultural Center for the first time ever to see Beth Orton.  I am familiar with several of her songs from her nineties heyday, but I think she only did one from that era, "She Cries Your Name."  So also did her current single, "Fractals."  And the rest I didn't recognize.  I usually don't like being so unfamiliar with so many of an act's songs in her setlist so. ...  For the ticket: $28.
• Finally, on Monday, November 7 I paid into a Powerball poll at work: $4.

Good through December 13.