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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


lisah - Jan 11, 2018 7:02:12 am PST #20910 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate

So sorry to hear that, msbelle.


Fred Pete - Jan 11, 2018 7:03:03 am PST #20911 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.

Taking money out of my retirement account for house repairs is not entirely frivolous, right?

What Calli said -- definitely not if the repairs are necessary.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2018 7:25:45 am PST #20912 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm so sorry. msbelle.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2018 7:27:52 am PST #20913 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse is me, except that my alarm woke me up early so I could come in for meetings.

Uggghhhh. A coworker just said to me, "Were you able to leave on time yesterday?" after I said I had had 7 hours of meetings. I was like, yeah, no. I was here from 8 to 6:30. Which isn't that bad, all things considered!

Taking money out of my retirement account for house repairs is not entirely frivolous, right?

Sounds not at all frivolous. Taking money out for a trip to the casinos in Macau would be frivolous.

Working at the library so far has been excelkent. I can't believe how nice it is to go to work & not feel like it impossible to do anything right. And the library us so pretty.

That's so great to hear!


msbelle - Jan 11, 2018 8:32:09 am PST #20914 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I thought with my first paycheck of 2018 I would have a bit more of a buffer than I ended 2017 with, but no. I have to go pay some bills today that I got notices on and I think I'll be under 100 in the bank for a week. Not grown-upping so well.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 11, 2018 8:54:23 am PST #20915 of 30002
"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

My condolences msbelle.

Don't feel alone on the grown-upping thing. I still haven't bought new tires to replace my bald ones, even though I've known for months that I need to. (And Gizmo means that money has to come out of checking and/or regular savings rather than Christmas club. Oh well, I can't pet new tires...)


Steph L. - Jan 11, 2018 9:03:27 am PST #20916 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh well, I can't pet new tires...

I mean, you *can*.

It's just a little weird.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 11, 2018 9:07:58 am PST #20917 of 30002
"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

It takes special inanimate objects to inspire that kind of affection from me. Though the Galavant DVDs I just ordered might qualify...


msbelle - Jan 11, 2018 9:23:31 am PST #20918 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Feeling slightly better. The bonus card had some money left on, so I paid half my insurance bill. I decreased my 401k contribution so paychecks will be a little bigger going forward. I'll send in the paperwork on the totaled car today and should have that money in my account by Wednesday and then payday on Friday again. Ok I can do this. No purchases for a week.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2018 11:52:19 am PST #20919 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm sorry that I have opposite money problems: I hate when, as a fundamentally cheap person, I splurge once and then learn it's really worth it. I have some boots I want to replace and my main reaction is, "I paid that????" Question: do we think winter boots will go on sale in the spring? Because I could wait it out.