It took a little longer than I’d thought it would to sell the stock and mutual funds I was using to fund this and move the money around to the right places, but I just ordered the new iMac for Amy.

There was some last minute hesitation on if I was really going to max the thing out, or if I’d go with less memory and/or drive space to save a boatload of cash. In the end though, I decided to stick with my “max it out, by the time three years is up she’ll find a way to use it” philosophy. But Gulp. I could have spent a lot less and gotten something that would have been more than reasonable for her for now… but here we go.

Between the monthly private school bills and this, we’re now pretty much guaranteed to be cash poor for the rest of 2007. She’d better appreciate it and spend every moment for the next year thanking me!

Well… she is 11. So that won’t happen. As Brandy says, some shrieks of glee when it first arrives and gets set up, and then there won’t be another word of thanks ever. But hey, that’s the way it goes.

And we really need this. Continuing to share my iMac with her ever increasing needs for computer time wasn’t working. And Brandy’s cheap temporary laptop she bought in 2006 is literally falling appart. (It is on the agenda to replace in 2008.) So she needed a machine. Did she need THIS machine? Well, probably not.

But damn it, I want to give her the best I can manage, so I did.