No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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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.


Sue - Dec 28, 2007 7:41:17 am PST #9498 of 10001
hip deep in pie

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.

[link]

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."


Sue - Dec 28, 2007 7:42:01 am PST #9499 of 10001
hip deep in pie

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


Gadget_Girl - Dec 28, 2007 7:46:08 am PST #9500 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

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.


Jesse - Dec 28, 2007 7:47:51 am PST #9501 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.....


msbelle - Dec 28, 2007 7:50:55 am PST #9502 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

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).


lisah - Dec 28, 2007 7:54:01 am PST #9503 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

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!


shrift - Dec 28, 2007 7:56:42 am PST #9504 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

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.


Jesse - Dec 28, 2007 7:58:07 am PST #9505 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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


Kathy A - Dec 28, 2007 8:00:34 am PST #9506 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

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.


msbelle - Dec 28, 2007 8:31:12 am PST #9507 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

lisah - do you get big tax refunds? using those on my cc is how i got chunks down.