That's excellent, Kathy! I'll be able to close out a card when I get around to writing checks this weekend, which is exciting, even if I just put part of it on another card (low interest balance transfer!).

I am reading this list of 2007 buzzwords, and i'm not sure if that many of them have made it into the common vernacular.

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And i have to say that there's already a phrase for this:

kinnear v.

To take a candid photograph surreptitiously, especially by holding the camera low and out of the line of sight. Coined in August by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee of the Yarn Harlot blog when she attempted to take a photograph during an encounter with the actor Greg Kinnear at an airport.

I've always heard it called "shooting from the hip."

I don't even want to talk about my credit card balance. Waaay more than I am comfortable with.

Grad School killed my credit card. Well, in 2008 husband and I will pay off cards, again.

I've applied for a scholarship that would pay off about half what I owe. I'll find out in March if I got it. Worst part is I'm up against a really close friend. They've been giving it to 2nd time applicants, though, and this will be my second application. My friend can apply again for 2009.

I am reading this list of 2007 buzzwords, and i'm not sure if that many of them have made it into the common vernacular.

Yeah, I haven't heard of a lot of those. Which makes its value somewhat diminished as something to point at when coworkers have never heard of "lolcat." Oh, Grant.

I don't even want to talk about my credit card balance. Waaay more than I am comfortable with.

This is why I'm focusing on the good news of closing out the smallest card, not the larger picture.....

I think I will payoff 2 with my bonus and that will leave just the 0% one which I think I will roll over onto another 0% one in a few months. The plan is to have that one paid off in a year (maybe year and a half).

I just added "pay off credit card" to my 100/1001 days list thingy. and figured out how much i'd have to pay on it every week to have it paid completely in 1001 days from Jan 1. If I don't charge anything else on it. Seems a bit like an impossible goal for me!

I did not go to work today. I sound like Lauren Bacall with a sore throat, and there's a snow advisory for today.

I think I'm going back to bed as soon as I finish this yogurt.

Relatedly, I need to keep in mind that these are not my dream shoes, since that's dark brown and not black.

The only reason I was able to pay off the cards is that my uncle sold the family farm to developers a few years ago (perfect timing, what with the housing bubble burst) and decided that, since he didn't have any children living to inherit, he was going to set up a trust for all of his siblings and their children. I looked at the paperwork this summer and figured that, maybe, I might get a dividend of $50-100 this year. Well, it was significantly more than that! Not enough to retire on, that's for sure, but sufficient to pay off those two (rather low-balance) cards.

I have to be strong and keep about 40% of the dividend in my savings account for tax season, though.