pay off my credit card

I paid it down to below $1,000 using some of my tax return.
I’ll end up still needing to use that money for flights but at least on this upcoming month, I’ll have drastically lowered my credit to debt ratio. Yay?

I have the money to pay it off completely but I decided to just get it to the halfway point and for me to have to deal with the payments every month and finance charges for the rest of the time. I think that paying it all the way off won’t “teach me a lesson” or it will just feel too easy. So… $500 left to pay off. Sigh…

my credit card is $1000. i think i have it down to $970.