Day 193: A Bushel of “Apples”

Posted on | March 12, 2008 |

My mom and I visited the Apple store today.  Man, that was an expensive outing!  ;-)

The reason for the visit — my mom decided that she wouldn’t have room for her 2-yo PC (tower, keyboard, and 15″ LCD monitor) now that she’s moving from her own house into a bedroom in my sister’s house.  She’s been playing with the idea of buying herself a laptop.  I’d been trying to talk her into waiting a few weeks before making any decisions — you know, settle into her new digs, get a feel for how much time she’d have, what it was like to share a computer with my sister’s family or if she’d really need her own.  My mom, being my mom, listened to all of my advice and then proceeded to buy herself a new Apple laptop anyway.

Oh well.

The total bill was $2,056.78. My portion of it was $561.44.  I bought a 1TB Time Capsule, an Airport Express Base Station, and a pair of In-Ear headphones.  The Time Capsule itself has a retail value of $499 but the clerk helping me, who also happened to be the store manager, mis-quoted the price.  I bought the only one in stock.  When he realized his error in quoting the price, he said he’d honor his quote.  So I got it for $399 instead.  Naturally, I was pleased as punch.

My mom bought a white Apple MacBook, an AppleCare package, an Apple One to One membership, and an HP Photosmart C4280 (which will end up costing her $0.00 if she remembers to submit her rebate info on time).

I am truly envious of the laptop (which I’m using right now — just to try it out for her) but I’m tickled pink about the toys I bought for myself and can’t wait until I get a few spare minutes to play with them.  The Time Capsule is a wireless router, a print server, and a remote 1TB hard drive that will play nice with both my Macs and my PCs at the same time.

Being Wednesday, I also stopped at Wendy’s for some dinner for The Son.  Tonight he went with a Baconator and a medium vanilla Frosty — all for $6.54.

This evening I also spent $10 in cash – $6.00 for event parking, $2.00 for a bottle water, and $2.00 for a massive brownie for The Son.  We attended an comedy performance and had a spectacularly wonderful time together.

The Husband took The Daughter, The Nephew, and my mom out for dinner while The Son and I were out for the evening.  I have no idea how much he spent.  What I do know is that I just spent the last 45 minutes cleaning up The Daughter and the bathroom after she “blew chunks.”  She thinks her stomach was off-color before she went out to eat but the big meal didn’t help matters at all.  Maybe she’ll be able to sleep now that her stomach is empty.  It’s definitely time for me to head to bed and see if I can’t catch a couple hours of shut-eye too.

Related Posts for Further Reading

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• $$: Allowance, Fuel, Dining, & Hot Date!
• $$: Health & Clothing
• Day 259: Cultural Experiences & Plastic Bins
• Day 235: Dinner & The Theater, etc

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