For someone who loves sports, plays music and is fairly coordinated, unless I’m playing Halo or Winning Eleven or one of those impossible X-Box games because they involve six different buttons each with its own function (how am I supposed to remember all that in the heat of battle?), I have terrible timing.
Every once in a while, I have an urge to shop. Those urges used to take place once a semester when I was in university, sometimes even once a year. But lately, I’ve noticed they’re increasing in frequency. Which is still something I’m getting used to because I’ve never been the girly-girl.
That’s not why my timing sucks, though. My timing sucks because these urges always come right after sale season. Without fail. When things are on sale, I’ll look at all the shops with their big “30% off” signs and tell myself, “I really should buy something.” But I never do. Because I don’t feel like it.
And then a week, maybe two, after all the sales are over, I’ll find myself hankering to shop, looking at pretty things online, planning additions to my wardrobe… but it’s so silly because by then everything is back to its original, pricey state. I even read InStyle magazine today and looked at all the £400 shoes for crying out loud.
I know sports and music have nothing to do with the timing of my spending urges but I was just thinking how ironic it is that a person who gets rhythm and understands the importance of playing the right thing at the right time just can’t get her brain to sync properly with a shopping sales cycle.
