The Day Has Come!!!

[Stang]

I THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER HAVE COME!!!

We were finally able to pay off our credit cards!!! Man you made those damn things! :) Yes they are nice to have but they seem to add up fast dont they.

Whoever made those things are evil :devil:!!! Not that I wont use them again but not for awhile :D.

I can breathe again!!! :o

Sorry if Im over excited but this is a big thing for us right now :D. Paying off 2 high credit cards feels sooooooooooooooooooooo good!

:bubbles: :jester2: :silly: :rockband: :rockband: :alcoholic :yup: :hug :couple: :gwave: :touchmonk :bouncy: :bump: :redbounce :redbounce :nerd: :turtle: :s0003: :hawaii:

[Aluscia]

That's great... I'm sure a lot of the cost was wedding related. I'm happy for you two :D

[KitZune]

That's always a good thing... I see my credit card as a method of gaining benefits like price protection and so forth... otherwise I always make sure that I have the money to pay for what I buy on it... if I don't have enough, I won't use the card... temptation is the devil. Now if only my sister could free up HER credit cards ; )

Omedato on your clearing of debt!!!

[Ghryphen]

Hehe yeah it feels great. Got to pay off two high personal cards and three business credit cards. Now we are poor again :lol

Our personal cards were mostly from the honeymoon. :o

[Stang]

Yeah we were pretty good before the wedding but then we had to charge a few things and then when we were on our honeymoon we had to call the cc company and have them higher it for us :). We would have never had to use them on the honeymoon if people would have sent the money they gave us before the wedding day :D. We did get alot of $1 on the dollar dance so that helped tip all the hotel people :).

Now lets charge another vacation and go back :D.

[Aluscia]

*hint, hint Gryphon*

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Wish I could get my student loans paid off. But it'll be another 7 years or so... :(

I do have a bit of credit card debt too. Paid one quarter of tuition with it because my student loan money hadn't come in yet. Then I promptly forgot about it. :disgust

But at least I'm paying it off now. :D

[Gambit]

If you save up to take the next one and don't put it on credit, you can take your trips 18.6% more often.

Ok, so I made that up. :p (I don't have all your financial details.) But the principle is correct, and applies to all the things you normally buy on credit.

(Anyone catch the pun? It was accidental, really...)

[Stang]

Oh I'd love to charge it and go Laurelin but that will NOT happen, Im happy they are paid off. We are saving now so that in the future, hopefully this year, we can go on a vacation.

[Xenocidez66]

come and visit Iceland. Its nice this time of year the sun never sets.

[Stang]

Any nice beaches up there? :)

I just want to sit in the sun and relax on a sandy beach ordering drinks all day :D.

I could go sit at the beach here but going into the water is a HELL NO, who knows how many dead bodies are floating in there or on the bottom and what they do in that water :barf . I dont see how they can swim in that lake :barf :barf .

[Xenocidez66]

Sure there are nice beaches here but swimming in the north atlantic isn't a reall good idea. The Blue Lagoon might be more your speed.

[Jode]

Thats awesome guys!! :D

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Which lake, Stang?

Some of the alpine lakes are nice. So is lake Crescent (on the peninsula). And the potholes down by moses lake are good too.

I prefer rivers though. Got tangled in some milfoil at Lake Wilderness once when I was much younger and it kind of freaked me out. I had a few nightmares about swimming into and stepping on dead bodies at about the same time too.

I tend to stay away from Lake Washington though. It used to be the place that all the sewers ran into in the fifties and sixties. And Lake Sammamish? Heck no! WAY to many dead bodies floating around in that place.

[Gambit]

What's with all the bodies in the lakes up there? :eek:

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

The serial killers around here got lazy. Instead of going into the woods to bury the bodies anymore, they just dump them in a lake.

Plus there are a lot of stupid people that think it's okay to drink and boat. Then they screw up and fall out of the boat, only they weren't wearing their life jackets because they were stupid, so their last thoughts are probably, "Hey! I should wear my life jacket!" Only they usually hit their heads as they are falling out, so they end up drowning because 15 drunk people can't rescue someone any better than one drunk.

:(

Then there are the people that just fall in and hit their heads. :(

[Ghryphen]

The lake down the street, Silver Lake, it has not even a creek in or out of it. It is just stagnant water surrounded my supermarket parking lots. The bottom of it has to have 30 feet of sludge. It looks like a nice lake, but doesn't seem very fresh. :barf

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Hey! I caught my first fish there! When I was 4!

And I have cousins that live over on something like 29th and 118th. :D

[Stang]

You didnt eat it did you? :barf

We see people fishing over there all the time and I just want to yell "you know what your going to be eating when you eat your fish?!"

Great now got an image of stepping on dead bodies in that lake, shivers, now Ill never go in there :).

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

It used to not be that way Stang. All that development around there has made it get bad. :(

I haven't fished in there in almost 20 years. :(

Too bad since it was always a fun lake.

If I go fishing now, I usually go to eastern washington. Or head to the mountains. And the columbia river is good for steelhead (I usually go down to a place by Goldbar).

[KitZune]

The worst thing you'll ever see in a canadian lake is a dead fish... and that's a traumatizing experience.

You guys should go to the canadian northlands, get a cottage on a beach for the summer... best experience you can have. and yes... Canada actually DOES get hot in the summer : P

I'm going to my cottage for this weekend with Laurelin, it'll be good. the lake there has a 0 dead body count.

[Ghryphen]

:lol

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Doh! Not Goldbar! Goldendale!!

[Aluscia]

Well, after this weekend, your lake will have at least 1 body count.

[Stang]

Its not the developement its all the weirdos around here :D .

I havent gone fishing in a long time, use to do it with my dad when we went on vacation. I always caught the biggest one :). One time we went up to Nea Bay, up by Port Angeles, and we went fishing and had a baby whale come under and around our boat, it was awesome and scary, didnt know if we were going to end up in the water :eek: .

We should get a big group together and go up to my familes cabin for the weekend over by Port Townsend :).

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Your family has a cabin over there? Sweet!

[Gambit]

and yes... Canada actually DOES get hot in the summer : P
Not by my definition. :)
I live in Texas, where the roads and parking lots have to be concrete because the sun would melt asphalt. I don't just mean "melt" as in make it sticky or a little gooey, and I don't just mean the late-July-and-August sun, either. Texas has more air-conditioned square footage than any other state - and it needs it. A couple of years ago the high temperature here was over 100 F every day for almost two months. During those times you're lucky if the low gets below 80.

Oh, and I lived in Houston for two years. There they have two seasons: Summer and January.

[Ghryphen]

Yeah Asha, Dabob Bay off Hood Canal, right on the water. :D

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Damn! That's really nice!

[Stang]

You get to paddle the paddle boat this time Asha :D, Krash and Gryphon got tired doing it :lol . Guess it didnt help going against the current huh? :D

[Ambush_Bug]

I will vouch for the Pit of Hell that is Texas. It's not quite like going through Death Valley, but with all the concrete in the major cities and the generally bright color of the soil, it gets damn hot. Luckily, Dallas isn't quite as humid as it could be.

There have been a few times here in SI, though, that we have made Dallas//Texas look like a bunch of wimps for heat. To wit: 109F, 98 percent humidity, not counting the heat index. Thank whatever gods there are that this only seems to happen every decade or two. I'd much rather Texas and all those southwestern states keep their heat to themselves, y'dig? :)