Liese, that's what my parents did with their current house. It's paid off now, which is still startling to me for no rational reason.
OMG, people, this day has been so crazy and it's just going to get crazier.
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
sarameg - Aug 31, 2007 11:55:23 am PDT #7990 of 10001
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2007 11:58:52 am PDT #7991 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
By keeping your car for 15 years, or 225,000 miles of driving
Cue hysterical laughter from me. I'm just hoping my car is still in running order when I finish paying off the 5-year loan, at which point it will most likely have 200,000+ miles on it.
amych - Aug 31, 2007 12:05:22 pm PDT #7992 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And if paying it like a 15-year turns out to be too much, even a little something extra each month makes a huge difference in the end -- the extra 100 bucks we don't even feel makes our 30-year mortgage a 22-year mortgage.
sarameg - Aug 31, 2007 12:08:07 pm PDT #7993 of 10001
That didn't ping me because the last car I had blew up at 13 years and 205K and blew up due to a bad oil change and me driving in DC traffic with no oil cap, not usual wear and tear.
I'm going to be doing 2.5 to 3 jobs in the next coming weeks. falls down
Liese S. - Aug 31, 2007 12:16:25 pm PDT #7994 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, that's true amych. That's a good thought.
Daisy Jane - Aug 31, 2007 12:19:51 pm PDT #7995 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I've been looking into the administration's plan to help borrowers because I seriously don't trust it, but I found this.
The administration will also seek to encourage nonprofit programs to aid people facing potential default, helping them refinance mortgages or take other actions before losing their homes
Which cracks my ass up because it's exactly one of the things we do, and yet? We're fundraising like crazy (taking away time from y'know, helping people) because he cut our funding last year.
amych - Aug 31, 2007 12:21:30 pm PDT #7996 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
he cut our funding last year.
Last year it was hurting normal people. This year, it's hurting his stock portfolio.
Daisy Jane - Aug 31, 2007 12:23:36 pm PDT #7997 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I just find very little this administration does to be "encouraging." Though they keep thanking me for doing the job they won't.
Emily - Aug 31, 2007 12:32:16 pm PDT #7998 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hey, everybody. Just thought I'd check in. Things are going fairly well so far, knock on wood. Just dozed on the couch, am about to eat dinner and get ready to go back into town. Sigh. Anybody want to come down here to go to a high school football game with me?
Theodosia - Aug 31, 2007 12:38:33 pm PDT #7999 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Emily! Has you landed a job, then? I have not seen you updating us here, if you have.