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[drewbear]

So by now most people who chose direct deposit for their IRS rebates have their money and the paper checks are being sent out soon. So let's get a little personal, hmm? Inspired by this site, I decided to run down how I used my rebate money:

1) Deposit just over 1/3 of it into my original savings account.
2) Use $100 to open a new, higher-yield but deposit-limited savings account.
3) $100 towards extant loans. Yay, extra payment this month!
4) 3 books from Barnes & Noble (including Nurk), a pair of jean shorts from Kmart, eBay, some pizza and some "personal items" whose exact nature I won't mention here.

Since I'm slightly ahead on my loan payments and I'm getting the PTO I cashed in for my birthday on this paycheck, I may send some money towards Kiva. It looks like a good organization.

*...yeah, I don't know where that title came from either.

Comments

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

What strikes me about the FLDS is that it's all about raping the girls. Most cultures that are polyg are all about the sons and alliances and so forth. In the FLDS, boys are loose ends. Raping girls is the goal.

Did you hear about the baby graveyard in Colorado City?

Graveyard

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Oh lord... I hadn't heard about that. And I'm fairly certain that it'll sicken me when I do. :-(

Re: Graveyard

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

A private graveyard, with 53 undocumented baby graves, mostly male. Males, between the ages of two and twenty, had an alarming propensity to get 'hit by cars.' 53% of the casualties were those young males. That's just not a rate that you see ordinarily.

Re: Graveyard

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Yup. Sickened.

Among the many, many things that I just fail to process about the way of thinking that leads to this kind of evil is that, according to Mormonism, family is supposed to be EVERYTHING. How, how, HOW can they rationalize raping and killing their own children?

Re: Graveyard

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Dude, don't ask me. I've had to create my family from the compassionate and kind souls I've found on the internet. You have an official invitation to the Opium Den when you can get up here. But, yeah, I don't get it. I just don't.