An erratically updated blog of moments in time with the Davis Family, starring Tom, Renee, Liesel, Conor, their friends and family, and unsuspecting passers-by...

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Conor's New Bed

We bought Conor a new bed this weekend... or at least that's what he thought it was last night... he had gotten really quiet when we went looking for him... here's where we found him (the pics aren't that great, but you get the idea):




Okay, maybe its not really his new bed... it's our new car! We have been researching vehicles for a few months now, and it has been a rather trying process at times. Tom may only be 6'2", but he has short legs and a long torso - a torso that measures the same as the average 6'5" - 6'8" person. Cars that he can sit comfortably in and that don't get the gas mileage equivalent of an M1 A1 Abrams Tank are few and far between, but we finally found one. And, we new it was the right one because the car we are trading in on it has a full tank of gas (every time we trade a car for a new one or when it finally becomes undriveable it has a full tank of gas).

It's a 2006 Mitsubishi Endeavor AWD with about 15K miles. It has plenty of room, lots of gadgets and gizmos (the only thing that I really wanted that it doesn't have is memory seats, but since its big enough for Tom, there won't be much adjusting anyway!), and very comfortable - even the back, as is evidenced by Conor above.

Better pictures of it, from the dealer's website:

I PASSED!!

Finally, the studying is over for now! I passed the third and final section of the EA exam. Well, now I have to pass a background check, which takes a couple months (hopefully they don't find anything that I don't know about?!), and then they tell me that I can speak to them about more clients' problems. And, just in time for tax season... Watch out IRS!

Anyway, the books were put away and the following day I started two days of training on the 2007 law (the exam was over 2006 law, and for 2007 they changed things that I just learned about - go figure!).

The CPA exam is next, though not for a little while - that will take much more studying and after being out of school since 1992, it may even take auditing a few classes at UTK.

Check out my next post (Conor's New Bed) to see how we celebrated this weekend...