Today N.A. and I went through all of our financial obligations in order to get a more concrete idea of how much we can truly afford for a house payment.
We first listed the things that we currently HAVE to pay or risk financial ruin... or at least a feature on one of those repo shows. That list included student loans and car payments.
The other list included things that I would be very unhappy to stop by for, such as my cell phone, fast internets, and an expanded cable package with DVR. After I listed the DVR/cable charge, we had the following conversation:
Unbalanced Reaction: Okay, so our cable and internet should be the same price at the house, right?
N.A.: I don't know, Unie.
UR: Hmm... you think it will be more expensive?
N.A.: No, I mean I don't know if we can get cable out there. Probably we can get dial-up, but we might have to get Dish Network in order to get TV stations.
UR: Um, dial-up?
N.A.: Yeah, for the internet. That will still work, right?
UR: ....
N.A.: Unie?
UR: Yeah, no. That's not going to work for me.
N.A.: Hahahaha! I'm kidding.
UR: ....
N.A.: You aren't laughing!
After that, we agreed that jokes about potentially cutting me off from my cable internet are no longer allowed.
