Monday, November 7, 2011

Day 311: Groceries and Living Arrangements

I have an amazing ability to get overwhelmed at stores and forget important things. I don't do the list thing, I just try to go through the store slowly, checking out everything thoroughly. Problem is people make me anxious and people on my ass as I am looking at something in an aisle makes it impossible for me to think about what I may want or need. So there was a lot of going back and forth on today's shopping excursion. I still forgot some pretty basic things, but I will just hit up HEB tomorrow since I did the Central Market rounds today.

I am looking into other places to live. I want my own place, devoid of loud laughter, barking dogs, and messy people. I want my solitude. But I also don't want to spend an exorbitant amount of money to be on my own, so that makes it a bit difficult. I will have to make some sacrifices, no doubt. Perhaps I will have to go to a laundromat. Or move more north than I'd rather (really don't want to budge on that one). I do know that there is a lease sitting in the living room that I have yet to sign because I have been on the edge of this for a while now. The push is the new job and income that could make a move possible.

Dad was kind of giving shit about it in his noncommittal way. He said he never figured me as the type to get spend more money when I could save it, and while that is true and I would love to save this additional money, I have wanted to live by myself since I decided I would be leaving my mother's place a year ago. It is a move that needs to be made regardless of the missed savings, unfortunately. My sanity and daily happiness will be greatly increased. I will miss living in a house, though.

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