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

[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!