Post Grad Life Pt. 2

*Fifteen month long I.T. contract job carries over as we move from Manchester, NH to a third floor apartment in Derry, NH. It's a much nicer, two bedroom apartment for $960 a month rent.

*Purchased a newer used car (2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse) right after the Accord's untimely demise. The cost was a little over $8500 for a car with half as many miles almost twice the horsepower and a much larger engine.

*Purchased a truck (1993 S-10 Blazer Tahoe) for winter purposes for $800. Insured, registered and brought down to RI to have it worked on by friends. Gas line and brake line replaced. Put about $1000 of work into truck, still running well for the exception of a few electrical and button-related hiccups.

*Longest contract job ends, followed by over two months of unemployment and unemployment checks.

*Contract Agency connects me with my first full time job in the I.T career back in Nashua less than a mile down the road from my last workplace.

*After a year of owning the Eclipse it has cost over $1400 in repairs and maintenance and soon another $1400 if it isn't sold before the work needs to be done (i.e. new brakes, new tires and cable-shifter issues). The car also is experiencing paint-delamination, which would cost up to $1000 to re-paint and fix.