Bodysuit 23 #808 (Patreon)

Remember when 808 meant yaoi? No? Guess I'm just old.

Yesterday I went to an Aldi for the first time in a while and bought some foodstuffs. Money's starting to get a bit more tight so I'm trying to find alternatives for stuff I buy, along with seeing if it's worth subscribing for another year of Sam's Club or not to keep getting their steamed veggies and chicken. Sam's club is cheaper in some aspects, but the membership kinda nullifies it. On the other hand, it's nice to scan stuff as I shop and just walk out of there, so I think I'll more than likely keep it in the end. That and every once in a while getting the 4 rotisserie chicken breasts for $3 is a steal.

But anyway, Aldi had some stuff that was a nice change of pace of the usual food I get. Bought this orange chicken thing and a couple veggie pizzas that looked tasty while not being too hard hitting on the calories. Ultimately it works better as a replacement for my trips to Target, where I might pick up and item or two whenever I go on my evening walks. However, then the issue becomes convenience. I could wait until Saturday and wait in the long ass line to get stuff from Aldi, or just walk over to Target and grab that one onio and can of refried beans then fuck off back to the apartment.

Always a tradeoff I guess.

Didn't help that I splurged on myself with some cheap anime through Sentai and a couple discounted games via Wario64 during the multi-week black friday sales (that and some junk for the stray cat in an effort to get her to stop sleeping on my bed due to what appears to be worms, along with buying medicine for her (which she stubbornly refused, and didn't eat all of her food after I mixed the medicine in, but I digress)). So for this month I'm gonna check out on buying anything. I'll splurge on a meal from Five Guys for my birthday in a couple weeks, but otherwise no media buying.

Biggest money pit is obviously rent, but I really like where I am despite the new management being shit. It's like the perfect location for my evening walks where there's plenty of people out and about, and even late at night it's not that bad. But then I look online for rent elsewhere in Dallas and it's roughly the same amount, or I only save like $50 a month. So eh.

One thing that's more on me is that the new management has required everyone to pay $65 for cable/internet. I already pay $50 a month for t-mobile home internet, where I'm playing the long game of them never raising their price like they do with their mobile plans. I'm still only paying $50 a month for unlimited 5G data due to being grandfathered in that old price. So if home internet does the same, then in a decade from now when the technology gets better and the service improves, I'll still be locked in that old price! But then I'm paying the apartment $65 a month for shit I'm not using. Do I cancel t-mobile and risk prices going up years down the road when I eventually do move out and use whatever internet the apartment provides, or stick with it on the off chance shit does go out of whack in pricing later. Of course, maybe ownership of the apartment will change again and then the new management will go "Actually we don't want to deal with this internet shit" and kill it. Wouldn't come as a shock to me.

Point is, I'm still earning enough to have these stupid mental debates and just being a whiner. Just hate that rent costs as much as a monthly mortgage.