Good morning! Working from casa Kemar this morning, so have the antics of the Cardinals at the bird feeder to keep me entertained as I labor away.<\/p>\n
I did something yesterday that has me feeling pretty good. I paid off 3 credit cards and cancelled them. Oh the cc companies begged and pleaded and offered me the moon to keep the accounts open, but I perservered. That leaves me with one card whos balance is higher than I would want, but now I can send all my cc money to it and get it paid off as well in the forseeable future rather than in the murky distant future \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n
No, I didn’t win the lottery \ud83d\ude25 – I just borrowed from my 401K (which isn’t doing so hot anyway with the stock market flopping around like a dead fish) at 7.5% compared to the cc rates of 14-1\/2 to 22-1\/2% — a good trade I think and since I cut up the cards and closed the accounts, there’s no temptation to run them up again. And I scheduled that loan to be paid back in a timely manner, so even that payment won’t be coming out for very long. I know I should not be tempting the gods with this smugness, but I just can’t help but feel good about this move.<\/p>\n
Am chugging along on my small project at work. I should have it all wrapped up by this afternoon. I have an interesting program at the SSIG meeting tonight that I don’t want to miss! It’s on Reporting Services and I know just enough about that to get into trouble \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n
Well, it’s back to the grind.<\/p>\n
Love to all,<\/p>\n
Margaret<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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