Good timelies!
I'm listening to Terri Gross interview a lady about credit card companies. Dude. They are of the devil.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Mar 27, 2007 6:23:24 am PDT #9036 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kathy A - Mar 27, 2007 6:23:45 am PDT #9037 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Dana, you wouldn't have gotten the Fergie earworm if you read Natter in reverse--I quoted Sondheim yesterday which left me earwormed with "Into the Woods" songs for the rest of the day.
Cool thing happened to me today before I even got through the office doors--the admin from my former department was outside for a smoke, and as I came up the stairs, she accosted me. "You've been losing weight!!" "Um, yeah?" "You look fabulous!!!!"
I actually scuffed my toe and blushed--such a cliche.
Steph L. - Mar 27, 2007 6:32:07 am PDT #9038 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm listening to Terri Gross interview a lady about credit card companies. Dude. They are of the devil.
Last week, it occurred to me that I didn't even know what the APR was on my credit card. In the past, I had been known to be late with my payments, more out of laziness than anything, but that jacked my APR up, and then I stopped paying attention to what the APR was. (Seriously, I can be so freaking unaware of my finances. I am a dingbat about some things.)
It was, in fact, really high, and so I called my credit card company to see if they would lower it, because I hadn't been late with my payments in at least a year. Dude, they lowered it by 6%! (Not *to* 6%; *by* 6%. Which still rocks hard.)
Jesse - Mar 27, 2007 6:38:57 am PDT #9039 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's sweet, Steph.
Ugh. I just bolted my lunch so fast, I have an extra 20 minutes now! And I'm slightly ill. That was ridiculous. This is why people shouldn't rush me! It never works out well.
Gudanov - Mar 27, 2007 6:39:40 am PDT #9040 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Do you get the 0% offers for balance transfers? They are limited time, but you can string them out. All of my (quickly decreasing) credit card debt is interest free.
My wife has fully bought into my budgeting and debt reduction obsession, which is very cool. If she can help keep us on budget we should be retiring about $1000 of debt a month.
Daisy Jane - Mar 27, 2007 6:42:34 am PDT #9041 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The lady is a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren.
She said that as the new bankruptcy bill was being passed, credit card companies were increasing mailing to moderate income people.
Steph L. - Mar 27, 2007 6:42:37 am PDT #9042 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Do you get the 0% offers for balance transfers? They are limited time, but you can string them out.
I do, but since I'm looking at possibly buying a house in the next 9-12 months, I don't want to screw with my credit score by opening too many credit cards.
Kathy A - Mar 27, 2007 6:48:05 am PDT #9043 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
She said that as the new bankruptcy bill was being passed, credit card companies were increasing mailing to moderate income people.
The number of offers I get from Capital One alone is enough to overflow a landfill.
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2007 6:49:55 am PDT #9044 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Posting from my Palm at work. No work yet. But I have ID.
Let me not speak of family. Just...no.
I read Joan Jett was gay and doing Carmen Electra. That's all the gay I got.
sarameg - Mar 27, 2007 6:51:55 am PDT #9045 of 10001
Yay work!
Well, ita's work. Both a job AND a refuge today.