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The last time I worked was such a garbage night. It was probably the least I had made since coming back. I still made an hourly of $100 an hour which realistically I shouldn’t complain about but when you don’t work that many hours to begin with, it’s not great.

The studio isn’t paying me enough to not dance right now and it’s either I get a normal day job and never see my partner and the daytime classes fall off or I do this, and I get to keep doing what I’m doing. My parents are getting antsy about me finding a job because they think all I have is the studio and it’s like… it’s like living beneath the poverty line. It’s… mind blowing I’ve not gone crazy yet. Thank god for this life because it funds basically my entire life.

Anyway I basically didn’t put myself out there last Saturday. The last time I was there no one said no to me, and this last time, I don’t know what happened, I didn’t even really conversate I just walked around. Making so little was my own fault but at the same time… it didn’t look like anyone was feeling me the way I felt like I wanted them to. There’s always good and bad nights and I know that.

Some of the girls are starting to recognize me more. I know at least two girls names and they know mine, last weekend three other girls introduced themselves to me. They seem like nice girls. Not all of them are raging bitches it seems. Not that I thought they would be, but some of them low key just look like mean girls. Two weekends ago when no one said no to me, this really pretty OG girl

Took me under her wing and she made me an extra $300 just by being there with me. I loved it and i hope to be friendlier with some of those girls because if I can tag team with other girls, I have a feeling this is the club to do it at, and make the most amount of money doing it. I need a new car so right now I’m renting a car which cuts into my car expenses but if I can make an extra 7k somehow, I can afford a NICER car than the one I’m currently looking at. The deadline is near so I don’t see it happening soon but I told myself if I buy this car and then I wanna send it back, I’m sure they’ll have some kind of 30 day km warranty or something… idk. Or I can soop it up myself. It just doesn’t have all the bells and whistles I had hoped it would. There’s a car my dad showed me that 3k more than I can afford. If somehow I can make 3k in a week, I’d do it. Honestly if I worked today, tomorrow and Saturday, I’d probably be 1k short and at that point I could pull out of my savings. And here’s the thing. I actually CAN afford this 3k more right now, but I don’t wanna be entirely depleted, so I’m holding back. It’s okay. One day I won’t have to make sacrifices like this. One day when I figure out how to hustle properly, I’ll make $1k nights every night and I’ll be able to make like 10k a month because I’ll work more than just once a week. This is what I’m manifesting.

May 29th

I did pretty good. But honestly there was a moment where it just felt like chance. I did NOT try that hard yesterday. I’m not sure if I was in the mood to get rejected but I didn’t even try to close dances. I’d talk to dudes and then sometimes cut the conversation to say “okay well I’m gonna walk around but find me if you want a dance.” What a weird thing to say? Why not close the deal? Idk what the logic was but I think I was having an off night mentally. I knew I should’ve just gone home, but I stuck through and luckily I did well.

One of my followers came to see me so that was guaranteed money which I stuck through for. I knew I’d get cover, gas and then some paid because of that guy. Mr. Alone. He drove an hour and a half to come see me so that’s nice of him

There was this really drunk guy who was going for dances with literally everyone and he was SPENDING. I think he was drunk because he was just super high energy, gave a little sloppy but was walking straight, could count money, willingly put his card into the atm… idk but that guy was my big spender. I danced for him twice.

I’m not convinced this club is for me. I know I’m not supposed to compare myself and I’m usually so good about it but there are so many big booty hoes up in thst club, tiny girls are truly the minority. One of the tiny white firls seems to do pretty well, I always see her doing table dances. I hate table dances though. I got asked to do one and I kept trying to convince them to go to the back and he was a brown guy so he was like “well do this and then we’ll go to the back” but like no so all him and his five friends can gawk? Nah you can individually pay $25 a song to see this shit. So anyway I was like “ok I’m gonna walk around” and then just didn’t go back there. I hate table dances dude.

But yeah anyway there are girls who could squash me because they be so thicc. And in my head THOSE girls are the ones people want. But like, I see some of them getting rejected but I sum it up to “those guys aren’t buying dances” which isn’t Necessarily the case but here we are, writing about it. Idk, I think those girls are GORGEOUS so I feel so silly. Like I know I’m hot and pretty but I’m not convinced this is the club for my genre of hot. I’m thinking about trying this other club in Whitby. One of my friends from New Brunswick told me she did pretty well there. This guy that came to the club last week said he was from there and that he thought I’d do well there but the girls were not cute. Men will say thst type of shit though so I wouldn’t know u less I go. I’m thinking about it. And if it goes better than Niagara, I’ll just stay there. The license paid itself off a long time ago. It’s fine. If it’s like an Angie’s full of blue collar types, I think I could kill it.

I want to start upping my days at the club to two days a week. I could do two nights but I don’t know if I wanna disturb my life balance with T right now, so I might do one day shift one night shift and see how it goes. Or maybe like a 4-9 situation. If there aren’t a lot of girls during the week, I’d be happy to be of them if the bag is good. Cuz then it’s not a late night, I can wind down and have steadier income. Id love to be able to make 5000 a month, which at two shifts a week, is only 625 a shift. That should be SO doable.

Gotta do some research. I don’t think I flirt with the customers enough. I need to be sluttier and less… me. More Kylie less me. I wanna be better prepared this coming week.

#midnight ballerina #spicy dancer

May 16th, 2026.

Today was a good night. Relatively uneventful. I got onto the floor at 7, thinking I could be there until 12 and go home but obvs that wasn’t the reality. But I did discover a lot.

They charge men cover starting 8pm. So there’s people that will come during the early evening just to avoid the cover. And those dudes paid my cover fee and then some.

Cover was $75. Apparently if I came at 4-5 it would’ve been $35 which is dramatically lower but that seems like an awfully long shift. I’m not sure about daytime shifts. I thought I wanted to do it but if I’m not making upwards of 800, I don’t want to be there. Hearing me say that is wild compared to what my nights used to be YEARS ago. Standards have gotten much higher. Kind of a red flag on how addictive the money can be but perhaps a discussion for a different post 😅

It just didn’t seem busy enough, but maybe it was long weekend vibes. So I got onto the floor around 7:15 and secured $120 by 7:36 so I was already in the green. I got another 2 songs from another lad by 8:15. Both of them are who told me about the no cover thing and both of them are hoping to see me in two weeks when I’m back. That’s promising! Slowly and already building familiarity and I just started coming back to it all. Fingers crossed that can stay 🤞🤞 getting cover out of the way early in the evening is always amazing because then anything else is profit. Though I will say, at one point I think I had a profit of $200 by 3 hours in which again, is more than the average person makes hourly, but I was still mad about it being that slow. If I lived close to the club I wouldn’t be as mad but the drive home is long and I’d hate to go home grumpy by making such a low amount.

Anyway, on my way there I was listening to sales podcasts and one of the episodes said it takes 5 exposures to the sale for the average person to be convinced so don’t just say “oh okay no worries I’ll come back” and write off the sale. I used that on the first guy and it worked, he was an awkward German dude. Very timid. Easy $120.

It felt like pulling teeth for the next few hours. There were more girls than dudes in the club and they are all so beautiful. I know I can’t compare myself to them because we all do bring something different to the table but some of them are just, in my opinion, SO much more sparkly and hotter than I am. Body be tea, booty be FIRE, just has that objectively pretty, hot girl type of look. Botox and filler, but still gorgeous. I’m just a tiny, overall skinny girly and I’m pretty, but in a very different way from those girls. Some of the girls at the club are like… Stifler Mom types though. Age and body wise. There are two older women who look like they both might be in their 50s. Like wrinkly skin and all. I’m so scared of aging. It freaks me out and that’s definitely because of this industry. Anyway sometimes the hotness of the girls intimidates me to go up — like give me a script and I can do it, but sometimes I feel like they are so fucking hot on their own that they don’t even really need to have much of a conversation to get dances. Heck, I even heard one of the older ladies just go up to someone and say “let’s go dance” and given, the guy said nah I’m good, but it’s the confidence of like… I don’t care about your name, what you’re here for, or any detail of it all, I just wanna make money. I respect it, but I don’t think I can get away with doing it — maybe I need to get out of my head.

The older guys spent actually pretty little last night. It was a lot of just one dance or only two dances. Normally I’d say no if it was just one dance because what a waste of time but now I just keep my heels and my entire outfit on so I can just collect and get back to hustling. Every song is money and if do plays 4 songs and I get one of them, I guess it’s fine. But I don’t think I’d do that in New Brunswick. Probably because dances are $20 and if they don’t tip, then that’s annoying. But here it’s $25 which is an odd number so they’ll normally just give me $30-35. Which is worth 3 minutes of my time. I hate when guys are like “can we wait for the next song to start” so I think what I’ll do is telling them I’ll put a timer on. Because if the song just started, that’s $50 I could’ve made.. waiting for the next song and making petty conversation with some dude I don’t care to make more conversation with.

The young dudes I danced for tonight were all 21 year olds and they were SO cute! I told them I was 24 and everyone buys it. One of them forgot his wallet in the back room and he was thrilled when I gave it to him. One guy spend $475 on me and he was just saying “you just don’t even seem like a stripper you’re actually cool, and down to earth” and I think some guys just love that shit. My aesthetic is girl next door, girlfriend experience and that seems to work well with the dudes. Flirting with the fuck boy types is right up my alley, they love me because I know all their tricks as someone who was once subject to them. While I look this young that’s gotta go towards something.

I wanna be the hustler, only spend under a minute with each dude, but again, I’m just not there yet. I’m hoping to be one day but I think that’s for the truth Bad Bitches and baddies with the big booties. Girlfriend experience IS my thing for now and it works, I just wonder if I could be doing less but making more by doing it.

I wanna sell a vip room — I was so close last September, but it was at like 1am and all the rooms were full and it was like an hour waiting time. So I didn’t wanna have to wait with this guy and again, leave other money on the floor or risk closing.

I thought the bar closed at 2 but yesterday because of $475 guy learnt that the lights turn on at 2:45. I guess that’s good to know. But man. Getting home at 4am and then falling asleep at 5 am and waking up at 10:30 had me wiped. I took a 3 hour nap and I was supposed to go again today but I was just SO tired. If I had my nap earlier I probably could’ve made it but my body wasn’t falling asleep until like 6.

Anyway. Profit was 835 last night. Not bad. Not ideal but not bad. I’ll take it. But the cover fee is the same whether you go at 5 or 9:30 so I might start going on Friday nights if T is okay with it.

Meant to turn this into my stripblog and then never did oops 🥲

Well we are back, it’s been almost a year. That was July, this is may — but we are out here. I think I need a place to start tracking my goals and outcomes if I wanna be smart as I near my exit out of this industry.

I never took it that seriously. I was entirely myself, but with a different name. Last year I was a flowed up version of myself in a way I never have been before. Something about getting older… it’s so different now. More confident than I’d ever could’ve been in my early 20s, wastes NO time, does not care to sit with men for that long. Dude, I used to sit with people for like half an hour. Sometimes they would buy us a drink and then we’d sit there and sometimes just watch the dancers together. How odd, looking back. This job was not meant for the young and still figuring it out. It was ALWAYS for the confident ones who knew exactly who da fuck they are and won’t compromise. The ones who aren’t like that are vulnerable to more negatives in the industry, and the ones without being smart about it get stuck. This is a job but more than that it’s a stepping stone. To whatever you want. If you harness it the way it should.

I think if I keep track, visible track of my feelings, sales tactics and savings, I can maximize the little time I have left in this industry. So fingers. Crossed I can keep this going.

Things I want within the next year:

A new car

20k put away into savings and retirement

Pole retreat money

Wedding money

General travel money (Spain, Italy, Bali, Singapore, Australia, Mexico)

Summer goal: $15k after fees.

Officially turning this into my Stripblog

For reference m, I used to be consistent from September 2016 to 2017 but then I moved. Then I was inconsistent for a while and didn’t take it that seriously. Now I’m back and I understand it so much more.

I think I relied on my looks to sell dances at the time and I was also still insecure about parts of my body. Now I know exactly what I look hot in and how to get what I want out of that. Now it’s the eyes even when I’m not talking to anyone and I’m just standing there. It’s the batting eyelashes. It’s the tiny but flattering outfits. It’s the thirst faces while dancing. I’ve started to think I cracked the code. I have made over 1k 6 times in the last 8 times I worked. I think I may be starting to trend upwards for the first time all this time. Like I’ve finally cracked the code. I gave myself the small goal of 10k profit this year. I’m 1/5th there after this past weekend. After expenses.

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“There were two songs like that. One is a bonus track called ‘Right Where You Left Me,’ and the other one was “Happiness,” which she wrote literally days before we were supposed to master. That’s similar to what happened with Folklore, with 'The 1’ and 'Hoax,’ which she wrote days before. We mixed all the tracks here, and it’s a lot to mix 17 songs, it’s like a Herculean task. And it was funny, because I walked into the studio and Jon Low, our engineer here, was mixing and had been working the whole time toward this. And I came in and he’s in the middle of mixing and I was like, 'There are two more songs.’ And he looked at me like, '…We’re not gonna make it.’ Because it does take a lot of time to work out how to finish them. But she sang those remotely. And the music for 'Happiness’ is something that I had been working on since last year. I had sang a little bit on it, too — I thought it was a Big Red Machine song, but then she loved the instrumental and ended up writing to it. Same with the other one, 'Right Where You Left Me’ — it was something I had written right before I went to visit Justin, because I thought, 'Maybe we’ll make something when we’re together there.’ And Taylor had heard that and wrote this amazing song to it. That is a little bit how she works — she writes a lot of songs, and then at the very end she sometimes writes one or two more, and they often are important ones.”

— Aaron Dessner to Rolling Stone on Taylor’s penchant for last-minute adds to records (x)

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