you all are making me all rulebound.

Is it giving you the warm fuzzies?

See, Lee didn't even beat me by two minutes, and now she's all special.

Spurious rules, I tell you.

I'm feeling very SMASH THE PEOPLE lately.

Totally. I was going to destroy the universe yesterday in a fit of pique, but then I remembered that that's where I keep all my stuff.

I was going to jump in all PEOPLE SMASH!SMASH!SMASH! to the rules stuff because it cracks me up but then I realized virtually no one in this part of life has seen my Animal/gremlin whacko response and so I might scare them.

So. Pretend I did that without scaring anyone.

I need no bling, as of yet. And I'm working on the debt thing right now (largely kicked in the pants by last week's money nattering) which brings me to something I've been thinking about- does anyone know anything about taking personal loans to consolidate credit card debt? I think I'm going to talk to someone at the bank tommorrow just to find out if it would even be a possibility for me, but I don't know if it is a bad thing to do or not.

Membership fee=zero. You get one free weekend in my spare room for every sucessful match.

Whoo! See, that's what I'm talking about. Every interaction should be geared to the philosophy: "What's in it for Nora?"

Though I would like to get a vacation for Rio because she is SO PRETTY and there might be some MAKING OUT. (Still comes back to "what's in it for Nora" see??)

If I can get on the waiting list, in a year or so I'll be needing a smashing job and apartment in Boston and a strapping young lad.

Remember Mona's rules for life: You can have a hot job, a hot apartment, or a hot boyfriend, but no more than 2 of the 3 at any given time.

Can I be in the bling line? I'm missing my ring very much. So maybe I need to be in the "miraculously finds missing jewelry" sub-line of the bling line. Yes.

I think I'm going to talk to someone at the bank tommorrow just to find out if it would even be a possibility for me, but I don't know if it is a bad thing to do or not.

Lilty, the key for this is: 1) MAKE SURE THAT THE INTEREST RATE IS LOWER THAN WHAT YOU HAVE NOW FOR EVERYTHING.

My, was I shouting? I certainly don't feel emphatic about that, I guess.

2) do not use the credit cards after you clear them out. Cancel them or put them in the freezer.

Okay the rules work like this:

1. Jesse is the first in line. We are collecting $500,000 on her behalf.

2. I'm next. I want a house and a Something Else. Send money after we hook Jesse up.

3. Lee is next. Her wants are currently unstated.

4. msbelle wants to be showered so she's after Lee.

5. ita needs a man. So we will then collect at least $6000 to find an appropriate escort.

6. Lilty needs Boston based showering. She's after ita.

7. Juliana is in the bling line.

Any jobs will be handed out to the person with appropriate skills with Rio, msbelle, sarameg and ita taking priority.

SHEESH. Better now?

but I don't know if it is a bad thing to do or not.

It's good if the loan is a lower interest rate and there are no early payoff fees (if you intend to pay off early) and you don't ring up anymore credit card debt. If you are needing to quailify for a home loan, or auto loan or somthing you might want to hold off (or close the credit card account(s)) to limit the number of liabilities on your credit report.