Yeah, paying 2x a month doesn't save you much, but it can stabilize your cash on hand by synchronizing income and expenses a bit, which I like. I'm actually on the every two weeks payment plan because that is how DH gets paid, and it makes financial sense in a highly theoretical years down the road sense, but it's mostly comforting for me to not have to feel like a whole paycheck is immediately spent on the mortgage every month. My bank has the policy that the payments have to be a month ahead before they will start taking the automatic payments, which it took me a while to figure out - the wording on the web site is that payments have to be current, but they mean a month ahead - and that was a lot of money to pay out initially.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
-t - Feb 11, 2008 3:05:04 pm PST #8909 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2008 3:07:00 pm PST #8910 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You think it was a generation/gender thing? Or was it my hat?
It is quite a hat, to be honest.
DavidS - Feb 11, 2008 3:08:43 pm PST #8911 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A bit of a wait to load, but awesome time lapse of a San Francisco day.
We're a magical city that floats in the clouds and then turns into constellations of light.
Gadget_Girl - Feb 11, 2008 3:25:48 pm PST #8912 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Man, I so wish I could IM while grading. This is BORING.
This is so true!
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 3:49:10 pm PST #8913 of 10001
All you teachers need to do what my parents did: make your kids grade papers for you! Of course, this only worked because for mom, she was teaching first or second grade when I was in my teens. With dad, it gets a little more iffy because I was grading college students starting in my very early teens. However, just his 101 classes and I knew most of it by osmosis. (Still can't believe he let me!)
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 4:05:11 pm PST #8914 of 10001
All the catfood I have that I can't feed my cats any longer is coming in handy in feeding my neighbor's cat. (Miss Louise, or more properly, her granddaughter who is staying with her/living there/I don't know, has a cat.) Their budget is really tight and she wasn't able to get more food tonight. So I gave away some more that was tucked into the back of the cabinet. I'd meant to drop it at a shelter, but this is as good a cause as any.
Jesse - Feb 11, 2008 4:05:29 pm PST #8915 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yay! I just got an email that a friend of mine had her baby at 4pm today. I was literally just wondering about them this afternoon, so she must have been in labor right then! Eight pounds, born at home, named Zoe. Yay baby!
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 4:08:06 pm PST #8916 of 10001
Wow, Jesse! I like the name...
Man, it sometimes hits me that birthing babies is now a regular event in my circles of friends. And how that's..well, expected at this age, but gee, I'm that age!
Jesse - Feb 11, 2008 4:11:35 pm PST #8917 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I feel good that I have a little gift all ready for when they are ready for visitors! Although I already know that his family was planning on arriving en masse ASAP, which was not cool with her, so I'm sure it'll be a couple/three weeks, if not more.
sarameg - Feb 11, 2008 4:17:33 pm PST #8918 of 10001
Jesse, you'll have to check with her, of course, but it has been my experience that even with the influx of slightly-unwanted visitors, sometimes especially!, a welcome visitor is really really welcome. Even more so if you are the no-demands-does-stuff visitor (even if it is just hold the baby so they can sleep.)