Yesterday, I spent a ton of money. Money is a taboo topic, and often makes the one who mentions it seem juvenile. But, I do have application to all of this... it was liberating. Here are the biggies:

1. We paid off Amelia's credit card
2. We paid our last full rent for this apartment
3. We bought a AAA membership

Getting out of debt is great. We're going to be putting our payment for the moving pod on it, but it still feels great right now. The apartment feels about the same way. As a man, having these major expenses out of the way while we get ready to move brings a lot of relief. We've probably always had the money to do it, but Amelia had said, "lets just pay it off, and the put the moving costs on it". Brilliant, and it's a great way to build up some credit. The triple A membership is sort of insurance. You see, in 6 weeks we are going to be driving from Texas to Utah in a car like this:



It has 144,000 miles, a new transmission, new belts, and new tires, but it's still questionable driving it long distances.

In november/december of 2004, Amelia was driving from Oregon to Utah. After making her way through a blizzard, driving on patches of ice, and maintaining her sanity for a few hours, she finally got out of it onto dry road. Shortly thereafter the car died. She was stranded and the only way she made it out was that her parents called AAA and had them drive out to pick her up. She was a couple of hours away from Roy, UT. And so our purchase occurred.

I had more fun buying a AAA membership yesterday than I did buying clothes.