Euphoric and slightly nauseous

[itsallovernow]

Bit the bullet, made my bank account weep and bought the iBook G4 and an Epson Color printer. Much of Sunday's misery was due to the running around necessary to use Quark and print. Now, that's no longer going to be a problem. Nor is the dependence on other people's equipment or on work to maintain my digital toys.

But, well, regardless, it's a lot of money and while I think it will pay for itself, I still feel like I've got a strong case of vertigo. But, dude, G4, uber processing and my poor, beautiful original ice blue iMac is going to feel like the redheaded stepchild now. Sigh, the cat will still love it.

And for the Hussies coming to stay at Casa de Thea, both the DWP and The Gas Company say we're all paid up!! Whoo Hoo!

Comments

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

YAY for stuff! Seems today has been a mostly good LA day. *g*

And it's totally an investment. But oy, I don't even want to think about the vertigo I'm going to be suffering when I buy a car. Why the hell do we have to have these things, anyway?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

see, I am doing the car thing bass ackwards -- I am driving the car I hope to buy from Dad's company now, and trying to think about setting up financing for later. So I am falling in utter love with the cute thing, but I will need to come up with the money in a month or so. *eep*

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Heh. But at least you have a car to *use* right now, and that's the nice thing. We're using a friend's car at the moment, because he's out of the country, but there are two of us, and he gets back next week. And just oy. Huge headache.

And WORD on the eep. Why so difficult, right?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

But at least you have a car to *use* right now
this is very true. ANd since there is no transit where I live, and biking would be painfully taxing to impossible, a car is a necessity. And this is MUCH nicer than a junker....

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oy, good luck with the car:) So, so hard to give it up after you've already decided you adore it.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

thanks, sweetie!

this is EXACTLY my worry. I LOVE the car -- it's a Nissan Xterra, black, power windows/locks, CD changer etc -- really quite loaded. And it FITS me. It handles beautifully, and I really need 4WD where I live -- not least of which because I am not a very good driver, really ;).

So yes, I adore it.

And I SHOULD be able to afford it. In theory. And its a good deal. But until it is done and I am making painful monthly payments, there is an eep factor....

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yay for stuff indeed:) And it was a good LA day, a much needed good day:)

The car thing is such a monster that you spend a lot of time looking at it with a mixture of love and resentment and stunned awe:)

Good luck with it though, and much as I love LA, for me, the principal draw back is the need for a car. I hate having to be reliant upon it.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I so need a Mac!Love icon. Have fun with your new iBook.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! I'm so excited:)

And Happy Happy Birthday:) If I wrote SG I'd write you something, so instead I'll just offer up hope for a year filled with Macs and music and fabulous people doing great things with your characters:)

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

*salivates whilst slowly turning green*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Couldn't even think about the whole condo thing until after the new year, so I figured I needed to do it now:)

Dude, so, so wish you were going to be here this weekend!!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

congratulations, and oh i do know that slightly eeky feeling. *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of money, but I just can't keep running around using other people's equipment. The idea of freelancing was to open up new possibilities, not make me completely frelling insane:)

And it's so, so shiny:)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

mmmm....shiny. and there is a level of technology that feels supportive of new possiblities. i felt that strongly when i changed careers and have not regreted it. you are brave to cope with freelancing. *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the support!

[thinkum]

made my bank account weep and bought the iBook G4

Ooo, shiny!

::tries not to drool on keyboard::

;-)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'm so very excited. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas:)