[Erin524]

quick! hide my credit card!!!

I'm a gadget-a-holic, and I want the new Kindle Fire (specifically, the 7in 32gb Kindle Fire HD)

I have enough cash money for the other Kindle that interests me (the Kindle Paperwhite, which has built-in fiber optic lights for night reading), but I'm restraining myself and resisting the temptation to buy that one so I can afford the Fire HD.

My dad said that if we go to the grocery store this weekend, I can take his jar of change to the Coinstar machine and see how close we'd get to the other $125 that I need for the new Fire. (it's mostly quarters, and it's a fairly large jar, so I might get lucky)

My dad wants me to wait for the reviews to come in before I order the new Fire. If he lets me Coinstar his change jar, and it gets me to the $249 (I have the first $125, I just need the other $125) I'd probably just order it then.

Then I could give my mom my old first generation Kindle Fire, if she wants it when she starts recovering from the WNV (She now has a c-diff infection, hope they caught that in time! that's a bad secondary infection caused by all the antibiotics and steroids they had to give her to try to keep the WNV from damaging her brain)

Hopefully my mom will get better and be able to use my first generation Fire...and hopefully the puppy my dad said he'd buy her if she gets better wont end up eating my electronics. (I'm dog shopping for potential dogs for her, trying to find a rescue that's well behaved and past the chewing stage and hopefully housebroken)