if anyone's noticed more than my normal amount of levity in my tone today it's because of el ste's happy event II.
let it be known that today, i marched into my bank, looking neither right nor left, slapped 30k of my former pension fund on the counter and PAID OFF my mortgage!
i really did punch the air and shout yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss as i got outside, much to the consternation of the fag hags in the tobacco shop next door.