Why?

I haven't got paid this month yet, thanks to the account department technical problem. (Technical stuff in their heads, surely. At least my boss is being sympathetic to me.) And it's the high season of getting school stuff (uniforms, shoes, bags, stationary, etc.) for the new school year in this country. What is more, I have to pay this month's rent on Monday. So, you can easily imagine how frustrated I am with this financial situation.

So, today, it was so painful to see the receipts at a shoe shop and a bag shop, when we finished buying shoes and bags for the new school year.  Probably I could go for cheaper options, but those shoes and bags are much more durable than the others in the town. So, I told myself not to be ratty when we went into those shops.

And guess what? An urgent work came in in a very short notice this afternoon. What a cheek they got to ask for such a thing when they had stupidly lost my invoice in the cyberspace! But to be very extremely honest, it was one of the best assignment I have taken. I signed the confidentiality paper when I started working for them, so I won't say what this assignment was. But I work as a translator and a copy-writer, and I was both this evening, and this was the very first time that I felt great from start to finish, and even now I'm very happy about the finished product.

In a way, it's strange. Why am I feeling particularly good? I really really really hate about this "Where's my money?" situation, and it makes me feel ill all day if I let it, you know. Well, it could be a combination of a fact that I'm now quite confident in work which I had bee always wanting to do when I was a child, and nice shop assistant at both shops. I don't know why, really, but life goes on, and I go with it.