Seeking MiniVice (Minivan Advice)

[judecorp]

I am getting a new computer for the first time in many many years. It will be shipping soon. So exciting! I got an iPod Touch for Christmas and haven't been able to put any music on it because my old iBook can't run a new enough version of iTunes to sync up. Whoops. So it was time.

Financially, it was more prudent to leave the world of Mac for a while, although I am super sad to do it. I feel like I am cheating, ha. But this way I can get a bunch of software from Jen and can have Photoshop again, hooray!

I got one of those Dell Inspiron thingies that you can get in different colors, because I got in my head that I needed a smurfy blue computer. Of course. Of course.

My tax return - which was pretty significant thanks to Senor Cupcakey - is completely and totally gone now. Man, that was quick. Paid off both credit cards, got our heating system in the house fixed (it didn't have cold air returns, stupid prior owners), and now a new computer. Ch-ching!

Jen's should be coming soon, and is earmarked for getting the crack in the living room ceiling fixed, putting some away for the summer when I'm not working, a couple of flight vouchers to go to SC in the summer, and potentially paying off the rest of my car loan to get a jump start on replacing Jen's car. I was rallying for a Mazda5 but Jen thinks if we're going to "go minivan," we should go big or go home. So we might be getting a regular minivan and be a minivan family. EEEEEEEK.

Tell me your minivan stories and advice, please.

Being a grown-up is way less glamorous than I thought it would be. Whodathunk that spending all of that money could be so PRACTICAL and BORING?

p.s. Name my new computer

Comments

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

We don't have much debt (well, aside from the biggies - mortgage and student loan, and no tax return can touch that!) and what was on the credit cards was minimal compared to "average," but I hate carrying a balance on credit cards so it had to go. Mostly stuff we needed while I was on mat leave like new tires for my car. Good times. I feel so OLD.

Where did you move? I saw that you were moving but... did you stay where you were and just move places, or did you make a BIG MOVE? So currrrrrrrious.

Jen ideally wanted a big SUV with third row capability but I can't in good conscience drive around in one of those. Too big. Too SUV. The smaller crossovers are cute and good on gas but they don't really provide any more space than my Toyota Matrix. Which I love, by the way, but by the time you put two car seats in and a stroller that's it, you can't fit anything else. And Jen's Ford Focus is such a piece of crap, it needs to go.

[dch4.livejournal.com]

Just a little move. Marietta to Kennesaw, so about 10 miles. It's closer to school for Bradley and Nikki, and since I'm working from home again, it doesn't much matter for me where it is.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Aaah, okay. :) Good luck.