Another chapter in this crazy life

[judecorp]

Jen just accepted a job in Amherst this morning. She went to two interviews which incurred a lot of rental car cost, so I'm excited that there will be no more rental cars. They originally really lowballed her offer with the promise of giving her $1500 raises at 3 months and 6 months, which was pretty much unacceptable because we would not be able to even think about paying bills. She told them that she couldn't take that low salary at a time when we would be buying a new car and living in two households, and they agreed to ditch the staggered raise thing. The salary is still really low and is a bare minimum of what might get her share of the bills paid, but it's not $9K less than she made last year (which was their original offer).

So it looks like she'll be moving out there in a couple of weeks and I will be here for an undisclosed amount of time. At the very least I will be here through the next two rounds of IUIs, and if one is successful, I will find out when the doctor says it is safe to realistically go (although I will probably want to boogie ASAP). Jen will be living on a friend's couch (THANK YOU, jadefu!) and I'm sure that is going to suck for her.

I'm scared at the massiveness of the expense of all of this. Thankfully she can couch-surf a little and save some "get a second apartment" expense... but there will be a ton of gas money for the back-and-forth and of course we now need to acquire a second car with our Boston address and pay Boston insurance for right now. This is the biggest, scariest expense of all. I'm confident we can get a car we can afford (we were making payments on Jen's car until my dad died, I think) but doubling our already skyhigh insurance is going to be a killer. I wish we had a fake address we could use in western MA and insure cars there. It's GOTTA be cheaper than Dorchester.

I'm hoping to be out there in November but I don't know if that will happen, because we'll have to find a place to live, too. I am REALLY not looking forward to not seeing Jen except on weekends. At all.

Maybe I can temporarily borrow my grandmother's car or something... I dunno.

Comments

[siercia]

Wow. That's an exciting (if scary) change for you both. Hopefully it'll only be a little suck on the way to really great things, though.

I'm not sure who you do your insurance thoug, but it might be worthwhile to talk to your agent and explain your situation, and see if you can get Northampton to be considered the primary location for the second car. They may be able to do something like that.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, the second car would likely live here with me while Jen drives the Focus around... especially since the Focus has the Fast Lane on it right now. But yeah, I guess when it happens we can ask about the "garaging" and all of that and see what happens. I'm just not looking forward to more bills!

[siercia]

At least these are bills that are getting you closer to where you want to be. There are many worse things to have, eh?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I wish the bills were just until the moving, and not for the next say 5 years. I have really enjoyed not having a car payment! ;)

(Dude, it wouldn't be so bad if we were, like, making money. We haven't saved a cent since we moved here.)

[siercia]

Wait, you're supposed to SAVE money? How does THAT work?

;)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Dude, right? I don't even have a 401k or anything. All I have is a dwindling savings record. :)

[siercia]

And really, odds are good that you'd have needed a second car to be out in Western Mass anyway, so you're just having to do it a wee bt sooner than otherwise.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh no, the plan was always to have a second car when we moved. I just kind of hoped that we would move first, then car. Because I guess I always imagined we would move together. But hey, whatever. I just want a cool car!