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This weekend, I opened up a new checking account at a bank other than the one I have used for the last twelve years or so. This new one has been designated as The Cheer Account. You see, despite the fact that Katy is still in eighth grade, our first installment is due in a couple weeks. Between that first payment, the used uniform garage sale (heck yeah), and tumbling/stunting at the new gym (also starting in two weeks), we will be shelling out around $500 or so.

Before she even leaves middle school.

Yes, I know I said I was proud and it was a great honor. I was, I am, it is. It is also an expensive honor. I am considering it my college payment preparation in order to preserve sanity. So to that end, when a certain credit union convenient to both work and home offered a $100 incentive to start a new account, I jumped all over it. Free money, right? Sweet. Likewise, when offered a chance to "monetize" my blog, I figured what the heck? Thus the newly added, well, ads you see to the right. Ads for which I am not am not soliciting clicks, incidentally. But if you happen to be interested and you WANT to click, then by all means ;)

I am also already planning my shameless fundraising plot even as I write this.

Mwu ha ha ha.

Yay! I have a follower! Thanks, Carrie. You, particularly, realize how much that means - HA.

Current mood: Wary and scheming....

Cheer Mom out...