What the fuck happened?

I’ve been off the last few days which has been nice and has given me some time to do things. Even though I’ve been futzing a little with work stuff, I haven’t let it occupy me so much and I’m just doing it at my leisure.

Since I’ve been off, I’ve been out more. My normal routine is to shutter myself inside because since I work remotely there really is no need to go out all that much. The flip side of that is simply that I’m living check to check. I’ve got a goal for myself but to reach that goal I have to live a certain way. Things come along that can break my budget and I’m not all that keen on digging myself into a hole.

So, I don’t really go out much at all because it seems like every time I step out my door I wind up spending $100. Even if I’m just running errands… WHOOOSH!… $100 dollars (minimum) is gone. Thursday, I set up a bunch of MD appointments and there was a period in between appointments where it didn’t make sense to drive back home (gas is expensive these days) so I wanted to find a place where I could just get breakfast.

I found a spot and it was a decent enough place but just having an omelet set me back $24 bucks including the tip!!!! Egg prices were high but they’ve gone down, I imagine that restaurants were able to justify raising prices on anything eggs but of course they don’t REDUCE those prices when their costs return to what they once were.

The omelet was okay but for the price, I expect the waitress to put a bib on me, sit on my lap and feed me my omelet! (sexist I know)

Between that and the $55 dollar co-pay on the office visit plus some minor things BOOM! ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!

Friday, I went to see the Mandalorian and Grogu. This might be the first movie I’ve seen in a theater since I went last year to go and see Superman or the Fantastic Four.

Again, I’m cheap though… going to a movie these days is ridiculously expensive!

I went to the 3D/Imax/Laser showing of the thing… if I’m going to see something in a theater I want it to be better than if I saw it on my TV at home.

So, I get a senior citizen discount (which is like $1! Big whoop there!) and I have these movie passes I bought some time ago so I used another one of those and the cost of the ticket was about $12. This is not bad really, I mean it’s still $12 but not as expensive as it could be. In the theater, I saw people with their kids and the popcorn and the whole deal and suddenly I realized that between the tickets and the refreshments that was over a $100 easy. Not a cheap day out.

The other thing I do is I go to the supermarket and buy my candy there and bring it in. I’m one of those people, yes. So, I bought a couple of things in with me and that set me back another $10 but at least it was less expensive than if I bought it in the theater.

Afterward, I treated myself to takeout… BOOM there went another $50.

Saturday, I just laid low but today, I had made plans with a friend to go to a convention so I could submit some books for CGC grading. I don’t even want to talk about what that’s costing me and I feel like a dope and am afraid as to whether or not I’ll even recoup the money I’m laying out here. Nothing I have is minty mint but we’ll see what happens once everything is graded. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

I scrambled to pull and get things ready, met my friend and realized we were a week off on the date!

So we went for breakfast in a diner and BOOM another $20 omelet!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!

I’m seriously afraid I’ve developed into the kind of curmudgeonly older person who balks at the price of everything but it looks more and more that that is what I’m becoming. It’s so hard to save and get ahead and way too easy to watch money fly out of one’s pocket!